Posted on 10/15/2009 5:48:24 PM PDT by rmlew
Allegations that Israel plunders and trafficks Palestinians' organs are ugly, false, and harmful to peace efforts. No less dangerous—such libels spread.
The Aug. 17 story by Donald Bostrom in Aftonbladet, Scandanavia's leading daily, has quickly metastasized to mainstream Muslim media, spawning cartoons of Jews stealing body parts and drinking Arab blood. These have been published in Syria, Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, to name a few.
In early September, Algeria's al-Khabar newspaper echoed Mr. Bostrom in a new fantasy claiming Jewish-directed gangs of Algerians and Moroccans round up Algerian children, spirit them into Morocco and thence to Israel to have their body parts harvested and sold. On Sept. 17, Iran's PressTV breathlessly declared "an international Jewish conspiracy to kidnap children and harvest their organs is gathering momentum."
Hate-filled Web sites have also taken up the theme. Almost invariably, wherever such permutations on the idea of Israeli organ theft appear, Aftonbladet is cited.
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I just don't understand how anyone with an ounce of scientific knowledge would believe this. Dead organs are dead.
How to rile up a population until they can have their pogrom.
I feel stupd for asking but how is a “blood libel” different from a “libel”. Where did that term originate if anyone knows?
There was just one “Blood Libel”, as it refers to a specific set of cases attacking Jews. It came from accusations dating to the Middle Ages that Jews require the blood of sacrificed children (or specifically Christian children in some stories) for certain rites.
It is next to impossible to explain the accusations that were hurled at the Jews during this time. Jews were persecuted not only for being "Christ-killers" but as "baby-killers."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel_against_Jews
The first such accusation -- better known as a "blood libel" -- was leveled in 1144 in Norwich, England. There, Jews were charged with kidnapping a Christian baby and draining the baby of blood. The charge became so popular it would sweep, in various forms, through Europe and then spread to other parts of the world. The most famous of all blood libel legends is that of the ritual murder of the child Hugh of Lincoln, England in 1255. The story was immortalized in a ballad so well-known in England and Scotland that is number 155 in the standard cannon of English and Scottish ballads compiled by Francis James Child in the 19th century. The best-know tale of ritual murder is the Prioress's Tale, found in Chaucer's 14th century classic work or early English fiction, Canterbury Tales. One verse of the tale goes like this: (2)
From that time forward these Jews conspired to chase this innocent child from the earth's face. Down a dark alley-way they found and hired a murderer who owned that secret place; and as the boy passed at his happy pace this cursed Jew grabbed him and held him, slit his little throat and cast him in a pit.
Now why did Jews need blood in Christian opinion? This is a multiple-choice question:
1. Jews suffered from hemorrhoids as a punishment for killing Jesus and drinking blood was the best cure for hemorrhoids at the time.
2. All Jewish men menstruate and need a monthly blood transfusion.
3. Jewish men, when they're circumcised, lose so much blood because of that surgical procedure that they need to drink Christian babies' blood.
4. It's the chief ingredient in matzah, and therefore prior to every Passover Jews would be requiring a large supply.
5. All of the above.
What do you think the correct answer is? Shockingly, it's (e) -- all of the above.
This is a very important lesson in anti-Semitism. You can say anything about the Jews and people will believe it.
It's ironic that Jews, who are prohibited by Jewish law of consuming any blood whatsoever (kosher meat is carefully washed and salted to remove all traces of blood) were precisely the people accused of drinking blood.
The blood libel makes even less sense when you consider that in the 13th century the Church adopted the doctrine of transubstantiation. This is a mystical idea which maintains that when the priest says mass over the wafer and wine, these objects mystically change into the body and blood of Jesus. Christians who consume the wafer and drink the wine are said to be mystically eating the flesh of Jesus and drinking his blood.(3)
It's ironic that the Christian world, while engaged in the ritual of "drinking the blood of Jesus" would accuse the Jews -- who are forbidden to drink blood -- of this totally fabricated hideous crime.
But then the accusations got even more wild.
Starting in Switzerland and Germany in the 13th century, Jews were accused of kidnapping communion wafers from churches. Why would the Jews do this in Christian view?
To torture it.
Medieval documents tell stories describing how a Jew (usually called always called Abraham) steals a wafer from a church, sticks a knife in it, and blood starts pouring out. And then he cuts it up into pieces and sends it to different Jews who all torture it.
This would be funny, if not for a fact that thousands of Jews were slaughtered as a result of such stories. For example, the entire Jewish community of Berlitz, near Berlin in Germany, was all burned alive based on the accusation of torturing a wafer!
http://www.aish.com/jl/h/48951151.html
I know as a Jew, there is nothing I enjoy more than fresh, raw "sweetbreads" made from the fresh corpses of Algerian children--toddlers, if they are available. But it is rare to find them at a reasonable price at my local "secret Jew market".
And at Purim, what can be sweeter than Hamantashen made from the blood of Arab babies! Mmmmmm...wonderful.
Anyone care to share THEIR recipes? My wife would post her own, but it has been in her family for generations, and besides, who wants to be charged by the U.N. human rights Commission? OY!
I'd share my recipe for Ishmael's Blood Chili with you, but I don't want my Sunday School class talking trash about me.
Ridicule is understood only by sophisticated people. The paranoid tradition of the middle east and thier populations in Europe make this impossible. The simple fact is that there is and was a real chance of violence. The Jews of Sweden, especially Malmo are in danger.
The authorities rate a "good night" by how many rapes occur and how many cars were torched. Those misunderstood youths. Perhaps they should double their welfare checks and declare Shari'a law. Then there will be peace. /S
Thanks for the details. I was aware of the middle of the last century’s accusations of these kinds and of poisoning wells, etc.
In the South, an insult on the family is an “insult to one’s blood”
Blood seems to be an important part of egregious accusations. Bad blood, Half blooded, full blooded versus weak blooded.
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