By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died. Ezekiel 13 v19

The medieval "Blood Libel"  

In England's Lincoln Cathedral you can visit the grave of  "Little St Hugh".   This lad was found dead and a story was circulated that he had been the victim of a Jewish ritual killing.   This was used to fuel persecution of the Jews.   His tomb in Lincoln Cathedral carries the story, but a notice has more recently been placed by the memorial explaining the falsehood of the story.   However the Blood Libel enjoyed great popularity and surfaced many times around medieval Europe and into the twenty first century.    

The medieval "Blood Libel" is still alive and well.    

Palestinian Media

Prisoners are used for Nazi-like medical experiments
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - (Palestinian Media Watch)
July 9th 2008

The Palestinian Authority is intensifying its longstanding blood libel campaign against Israel, falsely accusing Israel of conducting horrific Nazi-like medical experiments on Palestinian prisoners. These fabrications have been featured repeatedly in the Palestinian Authority's official newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, which is under the direct authority of Mahmoud Abbas.
 
In the past week alone there were three new examples of this libel:
 
"The method employed by the Israeli Occupation in which they [are] instigating slow death ... doctors in Israeli prison clinics use the prisoners as guinea pigs for clinical drug testing under the pretense of 'treatment.'" [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 6, 2008]
 
"Many of the male and female inmates received injections from needles they had not seen before, and which caused their hair and facial hair to fall out permanently ... others lost their sanity, or their mental condition is constantly deteriorating... and some are suffering from infertility." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 4, 2008]
 
"The doctors in these prison clinics are using the prisoners as guinea pigs for clinical testing of drugs and treatment-methods." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 3, 2008] 
 
Giving voice to blood libels and slandering Israel are essential tools used by the Palestinian Authority to demonize Israel and to inflame hatred against Israel, especially on the highly sensitive subject of Palestinian prisoners. It is therefore not surprising that the Palestinian public places the release of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons as a national cause, and justifies all means -- including the abduction of Israeli soldiers - to free the prisoners from their supposed mistreatment.

Report continues with many more examples and Israeli government response .....

Egypt

The government newspaper  Al-Ahram,  ran a lenghty article on October 28th 2001 explaining how "bestial" Jews murder Arab children to drain their blood to make Passover matzoh, and that every devout Jew must eat one of these blood matzohs to be allowed to live in the Jewish holy cities.     There is a great difference between what the Arab nations and Palestinians broadcast in their own media and what they supply to the Western media.   It appears that few in the West monitor the Arab media or take notice of the agencies that do!

Syria Mustafa Tlas,  Syria's Minister of Defense published his version in Damascus in 1983, entitled,  "The Matzo of Zion".    This book discussed in great detail the Damascus Blood Libel of 1840 and applied it to the current  situation; concluding that, "no Arab country should ever sign a peace treaty with Israel" and that this was the final mistake of Anwar Sadat, who "sold his country to the devil".

Saudi Arabia

At the same time as it was putting forward the "peace initiative"  Saudi Arabia was, through its government Al Riyahd newspaper, resurrecting the blood libel against the Jews.  In its March 10th 2002 column, by Umaya Ahmad Al-Jalahama, the paper asserted that Jews use the blood of (non Jewish) teenagers to make a special pastry for the March holiday of Purim.  Gory details were included of extracting the blood from the victim by placing him in a barrel lined with sharp needles.    (Translations made available by the Middle East Media Research Institute.)

Iran

"Zahra's Blue Eyes." by Sahar 1 TV (Iran) was first broadcast December 13, 14 and 20, 2004. It is set in Israel and the West Bank and and was filmed in Persian but subsequently dubbed into Arabic.

In Episode 1, Israelis disguised as UN workers visit a Palestinian school, ostensibly to examine the children's eyes for diseases, but in reality to select which children's eyes to steal to be used for transplants. The story follows an Israeli candidate for Prime Minister, Yitzhak Cohen, and contains graphic scenes of surgery, and images of a Palestinian girl in a hospital whose eyes have been removed, with bandages covering the sockets.

www.tomgrossmedia.com - (Translations by the Middle East Media Research Institute.)

U.S.A.

This poster was produced by students at San Francisco state university as part of the escalating campaign of anti-Semitism around the world.   It appeared in May 2002.

It should be remembered that the idea of using any blood, let alone human blood, is repugnant to all Jews.   The Torah expressly forbids the consumption of blood.    (Leviticus chapter 11)

The Apartheid libel is similar in origin and effect.

Updated 12/05/09

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