Moses with horns (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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You don't have to go back a thousand years.  Many modern editorial
cartoons in Arabic newspapers continue to depict Israeli political
leaders with horns.  It is a common anti-semitic depiction of Jews, and
it isn't hard at all to find examples in art from the Middle ages
forward.

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> Sounds like he ran into a bunch of art historians from 1000 years ago.
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> in=2C Moses with horns and jews with horns - all news to me.
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> > > I suppose you think that by looking at your head that they were
> > looking for
> > > horns. Which means that you knew such a myth existed back then
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> > > all Jews have horns not just Moses. Which means you thought they
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> > > maybe everybody had heard the myth too and they proved it by
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> > > head because you made a note of it back then.
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> > > This is very strange because I've never heard of a horned Moses or
> > > horned jews
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> > It's not that strange to anyone who paid attention in art history
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http://smarthistory.org/assets/images/New_Images/michelangelo_moses1.jp
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