Thread by @Timayenis

Jewish Ritual Murder
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According to Wikipedia, "blood libel" is a false accusation and an antisemitic canard. The countless cases throughout history have been supposedly fabricated by antisemites.
In this thread, I will provide some evidence on this topic.

The first occurrence in literature was in the book "On the Jews" by Greek historian Damocritus (possibly first century B.C.E.). Unfortunately, his books have been lost. This passage was preserved by Suda (a 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia).

The Greco-Egyptian author Apion claimed that every year the Jews would sacrifice a Greek in their temple, and that during the ritual, they swore eternal hatred towards the Greeks. Similar claims were made by Posidonius and Apollonius Molon in the 1st century B.C.E.

In this passage, Apion states that when Antiochus Epiphanes entered the temple in Jerusalem, he discovered a Greek captive who told him that he was being prepared for sacrifice.
Source: archive.org/details/Joseph…

1475 A.D. – The most famous case is the ritual murder of Simon, a 2-year-old boy from the city of Trento, Italy. His body was found on Easter Sunday in the cellar of a Jewish family's house in Trent, Italy. Town magistrates arrested eighteen Jewish men and five Jewish women.

1144 A.D. – In Norwich, during Passover, 12-year-old St. William was tied by the local Jews, hanged from a cross, and his blood drained from a wound in his side. The Jews hid the corpse in the nearby woods.

1171 A.D. – Blois, France: At Passover, a Christian child was crucified, his body drained of blood and thrown into the river.
Source: archive.org/details/jewinm…

1191 A.D. – The Jews of Braisme crucified a Christian who had accused them of robbery and murder, after they had previously dragged him through the town. Due to this, King Philip Augustus, who had personally come to Braisme, burned eighty of them.
Source: archive.org/details/arbois…

1247 A.D. – Valreas, France: Just before Easter, a two-year-old Christian girl's body was found in the town moat with wounds on her forehead, hands, and feet. The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1903, Vol. III, p. 261, claims that they confessed after being tortured.

Those 5 incidents were some of the most well-known ones. Because the list is huge, I collected all the Jewish ritual murders from the Middle Ages I could find into this image.

1510 A.D. – In Berlin, after the murder of a four-year-old Christian boy by 4 Jews, a Rabbi and a butcher - an enormous trial began. 41 Jews were sentenced to death-by-burning after their confession about multiple ritual murders.
Source: archive.org/details/DieJud…

The two instances of Ritual Murder in Hungary that resulted to the expulsion of the Jewish population. From the book "Le mystère du sang"
Source: archive.org/details/lemyst…

A second list of Jewish Ritual Murders from the years 1452–1747.

1812 A.D. – On the island of Corfu in October, three Jews who had strangled a child were condemned to death. Some time later, the child of a Greek, called Riga, was stolen and killed by the Jews.
Source: archive.org/details/relati…

There are a lot of incidents similair to the previous one from the 1800's such as the famous Damascus affair, the "Rhodes blood libel" and many more. In the image below I have collected some Ritual Murders from the years 1753-1900.

1911 A.D. – The 13-year-old schoolboy, Andrei Youshchinsky, was murdered in Kiev on March 12th by Menahem Mendel Beilis.

There are a lot of theories about the murder of the Tsar's family. Recently, members of the Russian Orthodox Church have claimed that it was in fact a Jewish Ritual Murder committed by the Jewish head of the local Cheka, Yakov Yurovsky. (Thread with more info in the future.)

Some other famous cases are those presented by the newspaper "Der Stürmer" such as the Ritual Murder of Helmut Daube, Karl Kessler and Martha Kaspar.

Five people were detained in Bilecik. The police found 2 Torahs in different sizes with embellishments of gold leaf, emerald and ruby in the trunk of their car. The officials stated that the 2 Torahs estimated to be older than 2000 years. Two interesting objects were found too.

A great book I can recommend is "Investigation into the killing of Christian babies by Jews and the use of their blood" by Vladimir Ivanovich Dal. In the link below, you can find a translation of the book: antimatrix.org/Convert/Books/…

Another very informative book is "Passovers of Blood" by Jewish historian Ariel Toaff. The book caused a major backlash, and MKs demanded that the state examine ways in which it could prosecute Professor Ariel Toaff.
You can read it here: archive.org/details/blood-…

JR Books Online has done a tremendous job with their "Banned Book Series" which contains a lot of books about this topic. You can support them by purchasing their books: barnesreview.org/product-catego…

In Memoriam: Simon of Trent (1472–1475)