Sarah Palin's Jewish Problem

[oberliner]

When Sarah Palin shot back at critics who proposed that her severe -- and perhaps violence-suggesting -- rhetoric and campaigning helped inspire Jared Lee Loughner's massacre in Tuscon, she accused those critics of blood libel -- and started an entirely new firestorm in the process.

Palin's invoking of blood libel, which in its proper use refers to a centuries old lie that was used to justify mass anti-semitism and Jewish persecution, immediately drew angry responses from politicians and Jewish groups, but also brings back to the forefront her own religious affiliation -- and its not infrequent brushes with anti-semitism.

Palin, who makes no secret of her devout Christian evangelism, is a member of Wasilla Bible Church, which subscribes to the Pentecostal Assembly of God. It is a small community church, but one that has been the host to a number of controversial speakers -- with Palin both in the audience and openly participating.

But it starts earlier than that. Palin is a member of a spiritual network maintained by Mary Glazier, a member of the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders. A council of 500 "apostles," with each leader heading up its own network - like the one Palin is in - they seek to use "spiritual warfare" to retake the nation - and world - from the sinners they claim are currently running it.

In large part, they're referring to American Jews.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/13/sarah-palins-jewish-problem_n_808854.html

[EFerrari]

1. K&R

[bluestateguy]

2. Every Pentecostal I have ever met was anti-Semitic

I'm sure there are exceptions to that rule, but I'm just telling you what I have seen.

[jberryhill]

5. Well, anyone who isn't a christian is going to hell, so...

It's not as if many of these possessors of the "truth" think highly of anyone else in the first place.

[RagAss]

3. k&r

[Stuart G]

4. K and R nt

[gratuitous]

6. It's a good thing no one will ever ask her about this

Because that would be just awful! And it's none of anybody's business. And Tawd was never a member of a separatist group, and even if he was, it wasn't because he's racist or anything, so stop saying that, and besides that was Tawd and not Sarah, and there's a big difference, and did you know that Michelle Obama wants to take s'mores away from your kids and that's all just part and parcel of Obama's secret socialist agenda to make us all Kenyans?

[oberliner]

7. No one asks her about anything

She refuses to do any "non-friendly" interviews - and even those are few and far between.

Ridiculous woman, she is.

[murielm99]

8. What does it mean that it "subscribes to" the

pentecostal Assembly of God? Is it affiliated with AOG? If so, how?

[huskerlaw]

9. I wish people would learn how to spell TUCSON

It's pretty easy to discredit the rest of the article when the name of a major US city isn't even spelled correctly. A shame, because this article is important.