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Anti-semites accuse the Jewish people of an incapacity for forgiveness and love. Let these preachers of love first practise it. Let them refrain, at least, from incendiary slanders against Israel who, among all the peoples of the world, has agonized and suffered most from hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness at the hands of others. Let such preachers of love remember the Mosaic Law: ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour’.
J. H. HERTZ, 1919.
Not one man alone has risen up against us to destroy us, but in every generation there rise up against us those who seek to destroy us; but the Holy One, blessed be He, delivers us from their hands.
PASSOVER HAGADAH.
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement thou shalt condemn.
ISAIAH 54. 17.