An antisemitic charge traced back to medieval Europe seems today to be on the tongue of nearly every right-wing Israeli politician and pundit: That of blood libel. The awful killing of Sarah ...

(JTA) — A top Brooklyn rabbi denounced as “blood libel” a new city policy to bar mohels from carrying out a controversial circumcision rite if babies they treat become infected with herpes ...

Because the “genocide libel” is rooted in deep psychological mechanisms, I believe that it will unfortunately be very difficult to combat, just as blood libels have been difficult to combat.

Editor: “Blood libel” is a term used to describe the lie that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood for ritual purposes. The blood libel was successful in inciting pogroms and ...

Blood libel, or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation), is an antisemitic canard that falsely accuses Jews of murdering non-Jews to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals.

The Blood Libel was particularly odious in light of two facts: It was the Jews who, through their Bible, first outlawed human sacrifice; and one of the first laws in the Hebrew Bible is a ban on ...

JERUSALEM — Ariel Toaff may have backed off his explosive claim in a just-published book that European Jews killed Christians to use their blood — adding credence to the ancient blood libel ...

Gabriel Sanders is reporting that Ariel Toaff has pulled his book on the blood libel and pledged any proceeds to the Anti-Defamation League. Here is the embattled professor’s statement ...

Fact check: Video falsely presents joke as confession to QAnon blood-harvesting conspiracy theory While the sculpture shown in the post does have a similar background, its premises are equally false.

But it’s also ambiguously coded. The witches aren’t Nazis; rather, they evoke the demonic figures of blood libel, the slander that Jews ritualistically sacrificed Christian babies.