Word: libelous
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...legacies of medieval Christendom is the anti-Semitic legendry that has stubbornly survived. At its worst, this xenophobic, scapegoat lore was monumental calumny, a "blood libel," as Jews rightly call it, that accused them of ritual murders of Christian children. The accusations were sheer fiction, the trumped-up charges of fanatics or Inquisitors anxious to justify persecution. Now a report from the American Jewish Committee's European office reveals that the old calumnies "still are being commemorated in religious ceremony, festival or art in several Western European countries...
...graduate student in Philosophy at Syracuse University who is suing members of his department for alleged libel said last night he will not leave school because "someone's got to stay and fight...
White now charges that this statement is libelous, because it allegedly impugned his academic integrity. He says that the letter was "published"--and meets the qualification of the definition of libel--because a copy was sent to the dean of the college...
Thau said yesterday that University lawyers have told him that correspondence White claims is libelous is "privileged information," between academics, and is not subject to libel...
White said that this letter could constitute libel because it was "published" on department of philosophy stationery and was hence not a personal letter...