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blood libel
noun
- the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals:
blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blood libel1
First recorded in 1910–15
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Example Sentences
In trying to explain and verbalize their shock, many British Jews made reference, in some way or another, to the Blood Libel.
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Doubts that began with talk of “death panels” only grew with mutterings about “blood libel.”
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She started the year with the famously self-pitying “blood libel” remark after the Gabrielle Giffords shooting tragedy in January.
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Howard Kurtz on her un-presidential move and why "blood libel" offends Jewish people.
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Blood libel was a specialty, as was calling white people ugly and black people beautiful.
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