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.

Origin of blood libel

First recorded in 1910–15

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.
The End of 'Bad Boy' Thinking | Stanley Crouch | November 20, 2008 | THE DAILY BEAST

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