The 3 Most Popular Lies of Christian Antisemitism

  Tragically, over the last couple of tidbits, I laid out a few of the recorded historical instances where thousands of Jews were murdered by ‘supposed’ Christians. Although, and I tremble to say, there are many more episodes of “Christians” killing Jews that I could report but I think it is appropriate now to uncover some of the lies that led to so many senseless murders.
​   Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin, in ‘Why the Jews’ write of the three most often quoted “libels” used in Medieval Europe to murder Jews:
1.Blood Libel or ‘Ritual Murder’. Jews draw blood from children and drink it during their celebrations, such as during Passover.
2.Jews poison Christians.
3.Jews kidnap the Communion wafer that is believed to be transubstantiated into the body of Jesus and then stick needles into it as a means of torturing Jesus.
  In this tidbit let’s explore the first of the three “libels” used to rationalize the murder of Jews.

   1. ‘Ritual’ murder. “The first accusation of ritual murder was made in 1144AD in England. According to a contemporary Christian document: “The Jews of Norwich brought a child before Easter and tortured him with all the tortures wherewith our Lord was tortured, and on Long Friday hanged him on a rod in hatred of our Lord, and afterward buried him.” A Christian convert from Judaism, Theobold of Cambridge, testified that Jews were required to sacrifice a Christian child annually, the choice of place being made at an annual conference of rabbis. 
  The first accusation of ritual murder had no immediate consequences. Because no evidence was ever produced that a murder had been committed, let alone a Jewish ritual murder, no Jew was tried for the alleged crime. 
  But the long-term effects of this accusation were devastating. Between the twelfth and twentieth centuries, on over 150 occasions, Jews, and often entire Jewish communities, were put on trial for engaging in ritual murder. In almost every instance, Jews were tortured and put to death.
  The case of Hugh of Lincoln provides a typical example. In 1255AD, a large number of Jews visited Lincoln, England, to attend the wedding of a prominent Jew’s daughter. The day after the wedding, the body of a Christian boy, Hugh of Lincoln, missing for over three weeks, was found in a cesspool into which he had accidentally fallen.” 
  “Matthew Paris, a contemporary Christian chronicler, wrote what he and other Christians believed to have really occurred: “The child was first fattened for ten days with white bread and milk, and then….almost all the Jews of England were invited to the crucifixion.” Subsequently, a Jew named Copin was arrested, and under torture confessed “that the Jews had crucified the boy in the manner that the Jews had once crucified Jesus.” One hundred Jews were arrested, and nineteen, including Copin, were hanged without trial.” Pg82 
  Tragically, as the decades passed, the ritual murder lie began to evolve, develop, and become standard in Christendom. 
  “By the fourteenth century, the ritual murder charge had become associated with the Jewish holiday of Passover, attesting to the antisemitism that the Jews’ beliefs aroused among Christians. Christians accused Jews of using Christian blood in their unleavened bread (matzo) and in their wine. In Savoy in 1329AD, Christians claimed that the Jews “compound out of the entrails of murdered Christian children a salve of food called aharance(haroseth), which they eat every Passover in place of a sacrifice; they prepare this food at least every sixth year because they believe they are saved thereby.” Pg 83 
  “The accusations of ritual murder followed the Jews throughout Europe. The historian Haim Ben-Sasson wrote, “Generation after generation of Jews in Europe was tortured and Jewish communities were massacred or dispersed and broken up because of this libel.” The blood libel has persisted into contemporary times. The Protestant historian James Parkes reported, “In Central Eastern Europe, among both Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians….there are almost more examples of the accusation in the years between 1880 and 1945 than in the whole of the Middle Ages.” 
Of course, the Nazis could not miss the opportunity to propagate another lie. 
 “In the 1930’s the Nazis often promulgated the libel. The entire May 1, 1934, issue of the newspaper Der Sturmer was devoted to Jewish ritual murder, and the regular weekly edition of the paper routinely carried illustrations of rabbis sucking the blood of German children.” Pg 84

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  Tragically, the ritual murder libel continues to this day. In 2020, Palestinian Democrat, Rashida Tlaid, the Congressional Representative from Michigan retweeted a lie by Palestinian apologist Hanan Ashrawi that a “Herd of violent Israelis” had “Kidnapped and Executed” an eight-year-old boy named Qais Abu Ramila who was found dead in a rainwater reservoir in East Jerusalem. Once the truth was uncovered that the Israelis had nothing to do with the death of this child, Tlaid scrubbed Ashrawi’s tweet from her thread. After Ashrawi subsequently apologized for tweeting unverified findings on the child’s death, only then did Tlaib tweet an apology.*

  In conclusion, our late pastor, Carlton Arthurs often said, “The devil has many devices, but a lie is the handle to them all!” The ‘Blood Libel’ or ‘Jewish Ritual Murder’ is yet another lie of Satan, that sadly, ‘supposed’ Christians have marketed resulting in literally---thousands of Jewish murders! Only sincere repentance can bring forgiveness and deliverance!!! May God have mercy!!
  
  
*https://www.westernjournal.com/blood-libel-tlaib-shares-tweet-falsely-accusing-jews-murder-just-holocaust-remembrance-day/
 
Quotebit
“The greatest single cause of Atheism in the world today is Christians; who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”
-Brennan Manning