It is a brief and clumsy phase, made harsher by the depredations of the blitz, and cut short by a phantasmagorical row of black-hatted accusers, baleful Elders of Zion who "denounce" the false Jew.
To emphasize the false distinction, Jews were depicted in classical artworks as dark and menacing.
He denied the "blood libel" (the false accusation that Jews had killed Christian children and used their blood in rituals) and rejected as a forgery the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," the notorious anti-Semitic tract (and a czarist forgery).
On Twitter, Ari Fleischer, a former press secretary for President George W. Bush, likened the comment to one made by Sarah Palin when she compared critical press coverage to "blood libel," a term alluding to the false allegation that Jews once killed Christian children to use their blood for religious rituals.
The use of the phrase "blood libel" is fraught with problems: the Anti-Defamation League defites it as "a centuries-old false allegation that Jews murder Christians – especially Christian children – to use their blood for ritual purposes, such as an ingredient in the baking of Passover matzah (unleavened bread)".
It captures false accusations that Jews are culpable for deaths they did not commit or are in no way responsible for.
It's time for scholars to acknowledge how the historical distortions in biblical depictions have contributed to anti-Semitism and to the false divide between Jews and Christians.
The women on this show depict a disgracefully false representation of Jews, a shameful representation of women, and a humiliating representation of Long Islanders.
And a blood libel is the false belief that Jews used the blood of Christian children in baking matza -- a lie for which we died by the tens of thousands -- not Sarah Palin's attempt to deflect criticism.
My objections to the partnership with Hagee are not theological hairsplitting, but are based on the fact that the sermons of this publicly "pro-Israel" figure are rife with anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and a false representation of Jews and Zionism to the rest of the world.
