Once again the medieval lie that Jews consume human blood has landed, this time at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station. In an outrageous piece of guerrilla art, masked “actors” portraying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week toasted a Friendsgiving Dinner with “Gaza’s Spilled Blood” on the menu.

The performers may think that this display of anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, but their performance was classic antisemitism.

Since medieval England, where, in 1144, the first blood libel surfaced with the accusation that Jews murdered a child in Norwich, the blood libel has spread around the world. The charge has spurred horrific violence against Jewish communities. In Poland in 1946, a child, fearing punishment for wandering off, knew enough about the canard to lie, saying Jews had kidnapped and held him. That lie led, just a year after the end of the Holocaust, to a pogrom against the tiny remnant of Polish Jews. Forty-two Jews were murdered; at least another 40 were injured.

Blood libel........

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