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Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) [1] [2] is an antisemitic canard [3] [4] [5] which falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christians in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals.
Hugh became one of the best known of the blood libel "saints": generally Christian children whose deaths were interpreted as Jewish human sacrifices. It is believed by some historians that the church authorities of Lincoln steered events in order to establish a profitable flow of pilgrims to the shrine of a martyr and saint. [3]
The Damascus affair of 1840 refers to the disappearance, February of that year, of an Italian monk and his servant. A large number of Jews were summarily tortured until they "confessed" to murder. An instance of medieval antisemitism and a blood libel, news of the case spread, across the Middle East, to Europe, and the Western world.
Blood libel stories have appeared in modern times on many occasions in the state-sponsored media of a number of Arab and Muslim nations, their television shows and websites, and books alleging instances of the Jewish blood libels are not uncommon there. [104] Some Arab writers have condemned blood libel.
Ariel Toaff (born 17 July 1942 in Ancona) is an Italian-Jewish historian. He is a professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, whose work has focused on Jews and their history in Italy. He came to international prominence with the 2007 publication of the first edition of his controversial book Pasque Di Sangue ...
It gives credence to the modern blood libel that fuels a growing anti-Jewish hatred around the world, in the United States, and in Hollywood. The current climate of growing antisemitism only ...
The Rhodes blood libel and the Damascus affair, reported together in The Times, Apr 18, 1840. The Rhodes blood libel was an 1840 event of blood libel against Jews, in which the Greek Orthodox community accused Jews on the island of Rhodes (then part of the Ottoman Empire) of the ritual murder of a Christian boy who disappeared in February of that year.
The Tiszaeszlár affair was originally a murder case which was represented in journals as a blood libel that led to a trial that set off anti-semitic agitation in Austria-Hungary in 1882 and 1883. [1] After the disappearance of a local girl, Eszter Solymosi, Jews were accused of murdering and beheading her.