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OM MAN SKA KUNNA FÖRSTÅ ISRAELS OCH DE ISRAELISKA REAKTIONERNA PÅ AFTONBLADETS ARTIKEL ”Våra söner plundras på sina organ” (17/8), BEHÖVER MAN HA KUNSKAP OM VAD BEGREPPET 'BLOOD LIBEL' INNEBÄR.  Många skribenter i debatten använder just denna term.   

En inte alltför djärv gissning torde vara att 95 % av Aftonbladets läsare - och av svenska folket i stort - inte vet vad som ligger bakom begreppet 'blood libel'. Det judiska folket har stämplats under århundraden med beskyllningar om att offra människoblod i sina ritualer. (Se engelsk text nedan.)

"En av antisemitismens äldsta och dödligaste myter är den som kallas ”blodslögnen” – the blood libel – om juden som ritualmördare.

I boken Antisemitism – Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present spårar historikerna Marvin Perry och Frederick M Schweitzer blodslögnens rötter tillbaka till 200-talet före Kristus. Den vanligast förekommande varianten gick ut på att judar kidnappar kristna barn för att tömma dem på blod som sedan används i olika religiösa ritualer," skriver Sydsvenskan ledare Hatet är evigt (25/8)

DN:s Gästkolumnist idag är HENRIK BACHNER. Han skriver om Aftonbladet och Israel och berör också:

... legenden om ritualmord. Den senare uppstod under högmedeltiden. Judar anklagades för att mörda kristna barn i syfte att använda deras blod i det osyrade bröd som används i samband med den judiska påsken. Beskyllningen har levt vidare långt in i modern tid och har vid upprepade tillfällen lett till omfattande förföljelse.

LÄS hela den utmärkta artikeln Farligt historiskt eko av Henrik Bachner


Bloggaren ARIEH FÜRTH delar med sig av sina Tankar i början av natten

[...] Artikeln i sig är inget speciellt men då den finns i Aftonbladet med denna tidnings ytterst tvivelaktiga inställning till judar, det judiska och Israel. Då man antar att Åsa Lindeborg, som ju inte är känd för sin philosemitiska inställning, måste ha godkänt dess publicering. Samt när Aftonbladets chefredaktör försvarar dess publicering så uppfattar man klart och tydligt artikeln på det avsedda sättet, dvs. som en modern variant av det klassiska medeltida och sedan tsarryska 'blood libel'-angreppet. Istället för blod till Matza organ tagna av israeliska armén från mördade palestinska ungdomar. Sålda i USA efter förmedling av rabbiner i New Jersey.

Se text: Saint Simon of Trent Blood Libel

MERA om Blodslögnen - the Blood libel

BLOOD LIBEL (also "ritual murder"). False allegation that Jews used the blood of slain Christian children for ritual purposes, particularly for preparing Matzah for Passover. Originally the accusation was leveled against both the Jews and the early Christians by pagans, who misconstrued Jewish and Christian ritual. Ultimately the libel was turned against the Jews by Christians, often at the instigation of the local clergy, with resulting executions, massacres, and expulsions in countless localities throughout Europe over a period of nearly a thousand years, though often kings and Church leaders opposed it. The libels and their resultant trials with their legal expenses and fines also led to the financial ruin of numerous Jewish communities. Among other false charges brought against Jews with similar results were Host desecration and well poisoning.

The first recorded blood libel occurred in Norwich, England, in 1144, when a boy named William was allegedly tortured and murdered by Jews. Similar libels occurred in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain throughout the High Middle Ages, spreading to Eastern Europe from the 17th century. In the Fulda blood libel of 1235, Jews were accused of using the blood for medicinal purposes, leading to the martyrdom of 32. In the Munich blood libel of 1285, the entire community of 180 Jews was burned alive in the synagogue after refusing to convert, and in the Deggendorf blood libel of 1338 the entire community was burned alive in the Jewish ghetto and the violence spread throughout Bavaria and Austria. In the Trnava blood libel of 1494, 14 Jews were burned at the stake. In modern times, two particularly notorious blood libels were the Damascus Affair of 1840 and the Beilis Trial in Kiev in 1911-13, both of which aroused worldwide protest and led to the vindication of the Jews. In the 1930s the Nazis revived the ancient charges and conducted new "investigations" (Memel, Bamberg) and in later years blood libels again reared their head in Soviet Russia. See also Anti-Semitism.

KÄLLA Answers.com: Blood libel

Några årtal - 'blood Libel'

    * 1144 CE: Jews in Norwich, England were accused of the ritual murder; Jewish leaders in the area were executed.
    * 1171: Jews in Blois, France were accused of ritual murder. All of the Jews in that town (34 men, 17 women) were tortured and burned alive. A second source says that 31 were killed.
    * 1181: More accusations at Bury, St. Edmund, England
    * 1183: More accusations in Bristol, England
    * 1192: More accusations in Winchester, England
    * 1244: London Jews were accused of ritual murder and fined heavily.
    * 1250: Jews in Saragossa, spain, were accused of ritually killing a child, San Domenichino de Val.
    * 1255: The body of a little boy, Hugh, was found in a cesspool near the house of a Jew in Lincoln, England. He was tortured, confessed that he had engaged in ritual murder, dragged through the streets, and finally hung. 100 Jews were transported to London and charged with ritual murder. One was acquitted; 2 were pardoned; the rest were hanged, either with or without a trial.
    * 1283-5: Following a series of ritual murder charges, 10 Jews were murdered by a mob in Mainz; 26 were executed in Bacharach, 40 in Oberwellil, and 180 in Munich.
    * 1431: After ritual murder charges, several Jewish communities were destroyed in southern Germany: Ravensburg, Uberlingen and Lindau.
    * 1451: Pope Nicholas V appointed John of Capistrano to organize the Inquisition of the Jews. John repeated the old charges of ritual murder and host desecration.
    * 1541: John Eck, a Roman Catholic writer, wrote a pamphlet  "Refutation of a Jewish Book." He repeated the ritual murder and host desecration myths.
    * 1840: An elderly Italian monk-priest, Padre Tommaso, disappeared in Damascus, Syria, after having visited the Jewish quarter in the city. 12 Jewish leaders were arrested and tortured. Four died from the mistreatment; most of the rest confessed involvement in a ritual murder.
    * 1870's: "With the rise of the modern antisemitic movement in the late 1870s, the traditional blood accusation merged easily with the new scientific racial arguments, serving as a lowest common denominator to unite its secular (and often anti-Christian), Catholic, and Protestant members." Roman Catholic Bishop Martin of Pederborn, Germany, wrote that Jews ritually murdered Christian children.
    * 1881: A Roman Catholic journal, Civilta Cattolica, started a series of articles which attempted to prove that ritual murder was an integral element of the Jewish religion. They argued that the ritual murders occurred at Purim rather than Passover. "It is in vain that Jews seek to slough off the weight of argument against them: the mystery has become known to all." (Not quite all. Historians have rejected the stories of blood libel as myth.)
    * 1911-3: An allegation of ritual murder, the Beilis case, surfaced in Kiev, Russia. The story formed the plot of novel, "The Fixer" by Bernard Malamud.
    * 1930's +: Hitler re-used the blood-libel myth as justification for the Holocaust. The Nazi periodical, Der Stürmer, often published special issues devoted to allegations of ritual murder by Jews. Hitler had asked that a film be made of the 1840 Damascus case. World War II ended before it could be made.
    
KÄLLA JC Relations: Blood Libel - A History of Groundless Anti-Semitic Fables

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