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Tuesday, April 07, 2015

It's Passover, so it's blood libel time in Arab media

I'm surprised it took this long.

Lebanon's Slab News has an article by Imad Jabbour saying that he never believed that Jews killed Christians and Muslims to mix their blood in the dough of matzoh until he read about the famous Damascus blood libel of 1840.

For more proof, he only had to look at Haaretz, which published reports of a ridiculous paper written by Israeli professor Ariel Toaff where he seemed to claim, and then retracted, that Jews slaughtered Christians for their blood in medieval times. Toaff is now claiming without any evidence that Jews might have used dried human blood in mystical ceremonies.

Jabbour concludes that when he watches ISIS killing Christians and Muslims, but no Jews, that they must be doing it to provide blood for Jews to eat.

The article is illustrated with a photo of a Jewish circumcision ceremony.

Jabbour's original Facebook post of this article has hundreds of "Likes."

(h/t Shawarma News)