In the summer of 1992, I walked through the streets of Kielce, Poland. I stopped elderly residents to ask about a massacre that had happened forty-six years earlier. No one would talk to me about...
Tag - Blood Libel
The Tin Bum: Did Gunter Gross Write a Pre Passover Blood Libel?
Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, and artist – best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum – has written a poem in the SudDeutsche Zeitung today, which tells...
Sarah Palin and Blood Libels
A slight furor, or perhaps simply raised eyebrows, came about when Sarah Palin used the phrase ‘blood libel’ to describe the attention paid to her (and pundits like her) rhetoric. Jewish...
Sarah Palin as Victim of Blood Libel? Oh my…
Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska, former Republican Vice Presidential candidate and current moron-du-jour released a statement today where she denounced efforts to blame her for the recent...