“exponent” Also Scores Attack

The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent also comments upon this matter in its current issue and in an editorial entitled: “Maligned in a Friend’s House,” says:

“The Hibbert Journal which has been consistently friendly and which is renowned throughout the world for its high standards of scholarship and its fair-mindedness, lays itself open to criticism in its current issue. The otherwise splendid number of an esteemed publication is marred by a foot-note to an article in which the author says, among other things: ‘The charge of ritual murder persistently brought against the Jews and always dismissed as a malignant calumny is proved up to the hilt by their own Scriptures. It dates back to the second century B.C. It was their horrible practices that led Sholmaneser and Nebuchadnessar to expel them from Palestine and when they returned they were abhorred by all their neighbors, doubtless for the same reason.’

“We have no quarrel with the writer of the article in question. He evidently belongs to the group that has never ceased to malign our people. These detractors resort to every possible subterfuge. Even the Hibbert Journal furnishes a fertile field for the sowing of their vicious seeds. And when this particular individual could not inject his propaganda into the text, he found vent for it in a foot-note. But we are amazed and chagrined that the Hibbert Journal should permit itself to be abused in this way. One does not expect to be maligned in the house of a friend,” the editorial concludes.