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A performer wearing the mask of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen in a video that echoes the antisemitic blood libel at Washington, DC's Union Station on November 20, 2025. (Screen capture/Instagram)
November 21, 2025, 8:21 pm
Anti-Zionist activists stage blood libel display at DC train station
Performers dressed as Netanyahu and US leaders drink red liquid from wine glasses next to menu advertising ‘Gaza’s spilled blood,’ drawing shock and outrage from Jewish groups
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: Detail from an 18th-century painting depicting blood libel in St. Paul's Church in Sandomierz, Poland. (public domain, Wikimedia Commons)
November 13, 2025, 11:47 pm
UK university axes researcher for teaching students anti-Jewish blood libel
University College London summons police after lecturer tells anti-Israel student group that Jews mix gentile blood into matzah
By Luke Tress
Israeli Ambassador the US Yechiel Leiter appears on the PragerU "Real Talk" broadcast in an interview released on May 22, 2025. (YouTube screenshot)
May 25, 2025, 5:35 pm
Envoy to US to be summoned for hearing over remarks bashing PM’s political opponents
Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, speaking to American outlet Prager U, accused the ‘extreme left’ of ‘blood libel’ for claiming Netanyahu is prolonging the Gaza war
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Ivie Szalai speaks against students reading 'The Fixer' at a Beaufort County school board meeting at the Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts in South Carolina, June 27, 2023. (YouTube screenshot/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 3, 2023, 11:43 pm
Year after ban, US school district to bring back novel about antisemitic blood libel
South Carolina district originally pulled ‘The Fixer’ by Jewish author Bernard Malamud after concerns by conservative group Moms for Liberty over ‘controversial’ content
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: Detail from an 18th-century painting depicting blood libel in St. Paul's Church in Sandomierz, Poland. (public domain, Wikimedia Commons)
July 4, 2023, 9:04 am
UK town where blood libel theory was born could get a Jewish heritage center
City of Norwich saw first known use of the antisemitic lie that said local Jews killed Christian children to use their blood for ritual purposes, in 1144
By PHILISSA CRAMER
The reconstructed faces of a male and a child discovered in the well in Norwich, UK, believed to date back to 1190 CE. (Professor Caroline Wilkinson/Natural History Museum)
August 30, 2022, 11:27 pm
DNA analysis suggests bodies found in UK well are victims of 1190 antisemitic attack
Study published in scientific journal uses radiocarbon dating and genome sequencing, comparing to genetic data from modern Jews, to match remains to medieval massacre in Norwich
By Amy Spiro
Israeli soldiers put flowers and candles on graves of fallen soldiers in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on May 3, 2022, ahead of Israeli Memorial Day, May 4, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 4, 2022, 1:44 pm
Daily Briefing May 4: Memorial Day in Israel; Russia doubles down on antisemitism
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman breaks down the ongoing debate in including terror victims on Memorial Day; Tech Israel editor Ricky Ben David sheds light on cool-tech
By ToI Staff
The Catholic University of Lublin (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
April 10, 2021, 6:57 am
Polish university calls anti-Semitic blood libel claims ‘scientific discourse’
Catholic institution decides not to punish priest and faculty member who said Jews practice ‘ritual murders’
By Katarzyna Markusz
Brazilian lower house deputy Roberto Jefferson gestures as he finishes his speech during a session of the Congress Lower Chamber to vote his ouster 14 September, 2005 in Brasilia. (AFP PHOTO/Evaristo SA)
March 23, 2021, 4:06 am
Brazilian Jews file complaint over politician who said Jews sacrifice children
Labor party leader Roberto Jefferson dismisses Jewish complaints as ‘clowning;’ Instagram removes his post
By Marcus M. Gilban
Hiram Epstein, center, is a character who appears as a ghost in the third episode of 'Lovecraft Country.' (Screenshot/via JTA)
September 8, 2020, 2:59 am
Why does HBO’s anti-racist ‘Lovecraft Country’ stumble into anti-Semitic tropes?
Changing the name of a key character responsible for gruesome experimentation on Black victims, the series ends up with echoes of a blood libel, which led to centuries of pogroms
By PHILISSA CRAMER
A segment of the painting “The Martyrdom of St. Simon of Trento for Jewish ritual murde.” (Giovanni Gasparro/Facebook via JTA)
March 27, 2020, 11:13 pm
Prominent Italian painter unveils a work depicting anti-Semitic blood libel
Giovanni Gasparro uploads ‘the Martyrdom of St. Simon of Trento for Jewish ritual murder,’ which shows several grinning Jews as they collect blood from body of a child
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The front page of the February 28 edition of al-Meshwar, an Arabic-language Canadian newspaper that published an article falsely accusing Israel of burying Palestinians alive and stealing their organs. (Screenshot)
March 7, 2020, 12:56 am
Arabic paper in Canada says Israelis bury Palestinians alive, steal their organs
B’nai Brith Canada condemns Toronto’s al-Meshwar newspaper for publishing article by Hamas member with baseless blood libel accusations
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Woodcut depicting 'Simon of Trent' alleged ritual murder, 1475 (public domain)
February 2, 2020, 4:18 am
Myth of Jews killing Christian children persists, says new book on blood libel
‘Blood Libel: On The Trail of an Antisemitic Myth’ by historian Magda Teter examines lethal canard from its roots in monastic tales to the pages of German Nazi broadsheets
By Matt Lebovic
A sign at St. Hugh's School in Woodhall Spa. (Screen capture: Google Maps)
February 1, 2020, 7:48 am
British school to change logo referencing anti-Semitic blood libel
Symbol for St. Hugh’s School recalls 13th century myth of boy murdered by Jewish family after chasing a ball that went over their wall
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this file photo taken on July 15, 2019 US Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) looks on during an interview at the US Capitol in Washington, DC (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
January 26, 2020, 9:23 am
Tlaib deletes retweet blaming Israelis for death of boy who apparently drowned
Qais Abu Ramila appears to have fallen into rainwater pool; Israeli consul general in New York Dani Dayan calls claim an ‘unfounded blood libel against Jewish Israelis’
By JTA and ToI Staff
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