Anti-Zionist activists stage another blood libel display in Washington

Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent.

Activists stage a blood libel performance in Washington, DC, in video posted on March 5, 2026. (Instagram; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Activists stage a blood libel performance in Washington, DC, in video posted on March 5, 2026. (Instagram; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Anti-Zionist activists stage a blood libel display in Washington, DC, according to videos the activists post on social media.

The blood libel is an age-old antisemitic conspiracy that has caused repeated mass violence against Jews for centuries.

It falsely claims that Jews murder non-Jewish children to consume their blood for ritual use.

In the display, actors at a table wear masks of Jeffrey Epstein, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump.

The actors tear apart and devour a blood baby and drink mock blood from wine glasses.

The characters wear Israeli flags and an Israeli flag is draped on the table in front of the Epstein character.

Signs on the table say “Satanic elite” and “Zionist World Plan,” which includes instructions for a “goyim dinner.”

A framed image shows Satan, according to the videos.

A menu says, “Israel’s pedophile blackmail dinner.” The appetizer is listed as a “cannibalism special” serving “dismembered baby intestines,” and the main course is “hundreds of young girls raped.”

Another placard on the table accuses “satanic ‘Israel'” of “organ theft.”

The display takes place on Pennsylvania Avenue., near the White House.

The videos are shared by the anti-Zionist activists Hazami Barmada and Atefeh Rokhvand, who staged a similar blood libel display in the city in November. Barmada is a Harvard graduate and former UN staffer, according to LinkedIn.

“At the White House, exposing Epstein’s ties to the Zionist establishment,” Barmada says in the video posted today.

Echoes of the blood libel have surfaced among anti-Zionist activists, who often levy unfounded accusations that Israel harvests Palestinian organs.

Anti-Zionists sometimes recycle age-old anti-Jewish tropes, with Israel, Zionists or Zionism taking the historical place of Jews.

Late last year, a university researcher in the UK taught a blood libel to students during a lecture.

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