blood libel
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The false, anti-Semitic accusation that Jews abduct and murder non-Jewish children to use their blood for their religious rituals and holidays.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Any false or purportedly false accusation of murder of a non-Jew by a Jewish person or organization.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Any false or purportedly false accusation of guilt, especially of guilt in mass murder or homicide.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The Jews of Russia are accused of having murdered a Christian child for ritual use. The blood libel against the Jews, which cropped up from time to time in various countries for centuries, has long been established as a myth invented by anti-Semites."
- "The Jewish reaction to blood libels appears less articulated than we might have expected, because although it denied any Jewish culpability, it internalized some of the narratives which nourished the ritual murder accusations."
- "The Israeli Cabinet, meeting in emergency session, issued a statement tonight calling allegations of Israeli responsibility a “blood libel.”"
- "Charges “Blood Libel.” Mr. Sharon, the architect of Israel's war in Lebanon and now Minister of Industry and Commerce, has charged that he was libeled in 1983 by a Time article suggesting that he condoned, if not directly encouraged, the September 1982 massacre by Christian Phalangists of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps near Beirut."
- "[ Ariel Sharon: ] “Time published a blood libel about me. How the hell do you settle a matter like this? A blood libel you fight!”"
- "The Israeli government has accused the BBC of perpetuating a “modern blood libel” in its reporting of the catastrophic explosion at al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza."