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now, you might ask, “why are they repeating ‘baby killers’ and accusations of ‘eating children’ so often?”

“why is this so ubiquitous on social media and even now in real life?”

There’s a dangerous myth spreading on social media. It’s radicalizing people and inspiring real-world violence: Jews have been falsely accused of "blood libel,” which has led to the persecution, massacres, and the expulsion of Jewish communities.

actually, you probably wouldn’t ask why, because you’re reading this post, which means you’re either Jewish or an ally and already know all about blood libel.

still, it is growing in pervasive popularity, and it is as dangerous now in 2026 as it was in 1144, and every other time it has stained history, and has inevitably led to the murder of Jews.

what needs to be understood is that it is the very worst, most monstrous accusation most people can think of. in many ways it usurped the charge of deicide (though that is where this concept originated, Jews as the killers of Christ), a charge leveled specifically against Jews to prove them as a unique and inhuman evil, the corrupters and perverters and destroyers of everything pure, good, and innocent. Jews kill children on purpose, in fact, they even slaughter and consume them and use their blood for their profane rituals. it’s an easy lie, and a seductive one (it’s also absurd, but when has Judenhass ever been logical?). get the people to believe that and of course they’ll hate those responsible for it. let the messengers be those who are respected, admired, adored, and it will travel that much faster, be given that much more legitimacy.

this time, the charge is even more horrific because children have undeniably and wrongfully died in the midst of war, and that is being categorized as intent, as targeted murder, rather than as terrible casualties. the questions aren’t even about conduct or whether enough was done to prevent these deaths, whether there are soldiers and other officials that do need to be held to account. that doesn’t incite enough distress, that wouldn’t reasonably cause Jews around the globe to be attacked for it. instead it’s boiled down to the basest accusation: they’re Jews. killing kids is what they do.

the medieval town square is now every corner of social media. the trusted monks are now the celebrated entertainers and influencers and politicians.

I’ve borrowed this quote before and will again (and so does this astute video): The best way to bring folks together is to give them a real good enemy.

henmazzig:

Most people will admit they’ve absorbed something from the racism or sexism baked into movies and TV. That’s why we scrutinize problematic messages in media, and why every push to change them meets so much resistance. What people see affects how they think about others. In 2026, this is hardly a new idea. Yet even though false antisemitic ideas have been widespread in Western art and media for centuries, few are willing to accept that they might have absorbed anti-Jewish ideas. Like it or not, you have to work at it, actively, the way you would with any other bias you didn’t choose to inherit. Because the background hum of this society is that Jews are to blame for almost everything that goes wrong. It’s not a true story. Never has been. But it’s one that’s left its imprint on generations, and gotten millions of Jews killed in the process. That idea doesn’t disappear, even if it changes clothes.

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“Nine centuries, one libel, and its genius has always been that it travels best on trusted lips - not the monster’s, the beloved’s.”

https://antisemitism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Antisemitic-imagery-May-2020.pdf

it is antisemitic to automatically assume that being a zionist — defined as the belief that jews have a right to self determination in their ancestral homeland — makes someone a bad nasty evil genocidal bloodthirsty killer actually

Modern rhetoric:

Jews are built into the DNA of this city. We WILL live here freely and fuck anyone who tries to stop us.

''The founding of Israel was based on displacement of Palestinians''- Look, I don't want to minimize that at all because people losing their homes is fucking terrible but that doesn't mean the solution is expelling Israelis now. There was a population exchange between Greece and Tuurkey in 1922. Both sides ethnically cleansed people. It was a terrible thing to do. But both Turkey and Greece exist now as two seperate states with clearly defined borders (if you ignore some shit erdogan tries to pull in the agean). And you don't question Greece's or Turkey's right to not be wiped off.

''Israeli identity is fake because it was based on smth that happened 3000 years ago!!!''- Ok sorry to break it to you but us Greeks have made our entire national identity revolve around who we were 3000 years ago. And if you want to argue abt fakeness of identity I would argue ours was a less organic one. Jewish people maintained the same religion and basic belief systems for 3000 years. They continuously felt the connection with Eretz Yisrael. We switched to Orthodox christianity from whatever 12 god shit we had, we lost most of our literacy that allowed us to keep tpuch with ancient texts, we embraced so many customs from the Ottomans and YET it was still valid when we tried to reclaim our ancient greek identity to build a nation partly on the basis of that

''European colonial powers helped prop up Israel which means it is an imperialistic state!''- Do you think Greece got independence or gained more land purely through OUR military strength lol?

That they call all israelis colonizers.

There used to be thousands of Jews in Iraq. The ancient Talmudic centers of Surah and Pumbedita were in Iraq. Jews in Iraq, and indeed most of the world, had never been treated as equal citizens, being subject to Dhimmi laws, but still the Iraqi Jewish culture flourished.

Today, it is estimated that there are only four Jews left in Iraq. Four Jews.

The Iraqi Jewish community is one of the oldest Jewish communities outside of Israel, and it was razed to the ground.

If you talk about the Holocaust but don't talk about the multiple ethnic cleansings and genocides of Jews in the SWANA region, you are being deliberately ignorant and antisemitic.

My ancestors lived and died and were buried in Iraq but I can't visit their hometowns and gravesites because they're all gone.

this is about Lady Gaga, and at this point I’m completely accustomed to comments calling her a “zio” and saying, “she supports Israel!” as a sign of evil (of which there are MANY in the comment section this came from), but I just think this one is particularly interesting, because it’s saying, “she supports the state of Jews.” the “Zionist” cover dissolves more and more every day.

"Its not antisemitic to" - it is

"Israelis made antisemitism into" - we didn't, it's what it is