Similar cases such as Simon of Trent ("In 1472 the Jews in the city of Trent determined to vent their hate against the Crucified by slaying a Christian child at the coming Passover..."and Hugh of Lincoln (cf Chaucer's Prioress' Tale) are found throughout the Middle Ages- most every such case being of course the pretext for yet another pogrom against local Jews. The Blood Libel was a staple of European antisemitism:THIS martyr was another victim of the implacable rage of the Jews against our holy religion...predestined to martyrdom from the beginning of time, he gradually step by step was drawn on, and chosen to be made a mock of and to be put to death by the Jews, in scorn of the Lord's Passion, as one of little foresight, and so the more fit for them....Then the boy, like an innocent lamb, was led to the slaughter.... Having shaved his head, they stabbed it with countless thorn-points, and made the blood come horribly from the wounds they made.
So is this something lost in the ignorant medieval past? Not hardly:A very learned Jew, who in our day has been converted to the (Christian) faith, informs us that one enjoying the reputation of a prophet among them, toward the close of his life, made the following prediction: 'Be assured that relief from this secret ailment, to which you are exposed, can only be obtained through Christian blood ("solo sanguine Christiano").' This suggestion was followed by the ever-blind and impious Jews, who instituted the custom of annually shedding Christian blood in every province, in order that they might recover from their malady.
http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents ... iddle-eastAl-Manar has made the Protocols of the Elders of Zion – Hitler’s textbook for the Holocaust – into a soap opera.
Episode by episode, the series peddles the fantasy of the Jewish world conspiracy: Jews unleashed both world wars, Jews discovered chemical weapons, Jews destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, in short, Jews have brought nothing but death and destruction upon humanity. The most bloodthirsty scenes are brought into Muslim family homes by Al-Manar. In one such scene a Rabbi says to a young Jew, “we have received an order from above. We need the blood of a Christian child for the unleavened bread for the Pesach [Passover] feast.” In the following shot, a terrified youngster is seized from the neighbourhood. Then the camera zooms in on the child for a close-up of his throat being cut. The blood spurts from the wound and pours into a metal basin.
Now this is what one would expect from al-Manar (indeed, from most major media in the Middle East.
But now Sweden's Aftonbladet, the country's largest-circulation newspaper, has run this:
What is it that permits the continuation of this libel even into modern times, and in the most 'respectable' of nations, one usually held up as the paragon of Western societies? Why the apparently eternal hatred of the Jew, beyond all other faiths?"They plunder the organs of our sons," read the headline in Sweden's largest daily newspaper, the left-leaning Aftonbladet, which devoted a double spread in its cultural section to the article.
The report quotes Palestinian claims that young men from the West Bank and Gaza Strip had been seized by the Israel Defense Forces, and their bodies returned to the families with missing organs.
"'Our sons are used as involuntary organ donors,' relatives of Khaled from Nablus said to me, as did the mother of Raed from Jenin as well as the uncles of Machmod and Nafes from Gaza
), but also rely on stereotypes and racism and hatred of enemies. A journalist should recognize one when they find one, and a scrupulous journalist, anyway should do some fact-checking before writing a sensational story.
