blood libel in English

noun
1
an accusation that Jewish people used the blood of Christians in religious rituals, especially in the preparation of Passover bread, that was perpetrated throughout the Middle Ages and (sporadically) until the early 20th century.
The blood libel makes even less sense when you consider that in the 13th century the Church adopted the doctrine of transubstantiation.

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1. The book also reportedly served as a "scientific" basis for a renewal of the blood libel charge in international forums.

2. The Antisemitic myths about power, loyalty, greed, deicide, the blood libel, Holocaust denialism and anti-Zionism have persisted over time

3. The definition of blood libel in the Encyclopaedia Judaica, as referenced in a 2011 BBC article, explains further that blood libel can represent a "form of the belief that Jews had been and still were responsible for the passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ" and "popular beliefs about the murder-lust of the Jews and their Bloodthirstiness

4. "The Accusation is a gripping and disturbing account, told in calm and measured prose, of how one of history’s most persistent slurs―the Blood Libel against Jewish communities across Europe and the Near East―resurfaced in small-town America in the 1920s