Serb academic propaganda recycled the medieval blood-libel against Muslims
Evidence
Behind much of the official, governmental propaganda were academics. University of Belgrade Professor Miroljub Jevtic, for example, wrote of the imminent threat to Europe posed by Muslims and also wrote of Balkan Muslims as having the blood of the martyrs of Kosovo on their hands-an almost direct copy of the blood-libel, that European Jews had the blood of Christ on their hands, used to persecute Jews from the time of the First Crusade in io96. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 317
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on ritual sacrifice and scapegoating in stratified societies; blood-libel is a sacrificial-accusation structure. — connects to: The ancient blood libel remains actively cited into the twenty-first century — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 275
- SHARE: An exact structural copy of the medieval anti-Jewish blood libel is applied to Balkan Muslims — a striking detail for anyone studying anti-Semitic template transfer.