The ancient blood libel remains actively cited into the twenty-first century

Evidence

Claims of blood libel persisted throughout the twentieth century, intensifying with the 1903 publication of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (the forgery of minutes of a secret meeting of hand-rubbing Jews plotting world domination). The Protocols and the idea of ritual killings or blood libel are cited even now. In 2013, to pluck one disturbing example out of dozens, Khaled Al-Zaafrani, founder of the Egyptian Justice and Progress Party, declared, “It’s well known that during the Passover, they make matzos called the ‘Blood of Zion.’ They take a Christian child, slit his throat, and slaughter him. Then they take his blood and make their [matzos]. This is a very important rite for the Jews, which they never forgo.… They slice it and fight over who gets to eat Christian blood.” At the Pizzagate rally, then, the neo-Nazi yelling about “Jewish ritual murder” was making a connection between Pizzagate and the blood libel, although he might not have known the historical and cultural roots of what he was doing. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 275

Categorization

• XREF: The persistence of Protocols-derived ritual-killing accusations connects to the vault’s framing of prejudice psychology — demonizing worldview stable across eras and media. — connects to: Blood libel accusations are studied today by contextualizing their revival rather than proving them; The medical-murder libel persists in modern antisemitic propaganda; Egyptian anti-Semitic texts reproduced medieval blood-libel and Holocaust denial tropes — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1279 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian anti-Semitic texts reproduced medieval blood-libel and Holocaust denial tropes #exemplifies (0.90) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1279
• Serb academic propaganda recycled the medieval blood-libel against Muslims #exemplifies (0.90) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 317
• Blood libel accusations are studied today by contextualizing their revival rather than proving them #expands (0.85)
• The medical-murder libel persists in modern antisemitic propaganda #expands (0.85)
• QAnon fuses medieval blood libel with the modern Jewish cabal trope #exemplifies (0.85) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 935
• Thirteenth-century anti-Muslim tropes endured into the twentieth century unchanged #corroborates (0.85) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 63
• Five specific factors made judeoconversos uniquely vulnerable to medical-murder libels #complicates (0.75)
• Christian eucharistic anxiety generated the blood-libel fantasy against Jews #qualifies (0.75) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 893
• Dehumanizing rhetoric legitimizes persecution across cultures and eras #expands (0.70) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 613