Tuesday, February 21, 2006

The Jewish Blood libel today

The Officers' Club: Hamas' Blood Feast

See the link above for a short Officers' Club post about the Jewish blood libel (the belief that Jews kill kids and teenagers for the use of their blood in rituals.)

As the post notes, it would seem that the belief is still current in the Middle East, which is indeed a worry.

For more detail on the history (and current belief in) the idea, see the Wikipedia entry here. See the section on the modern Arab references to it in particular. I wonder if any polling has been done in Middle Eastern countries to see how widely the population believes it.

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