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Blood libel
Blood libel
(also
blood accusation
) is an accusation that
Jews
kidnapped and murdered the children of Christians to use their
blood
as part of their
religious rituals
during
Jewish holidays
. Historically, these claims—alongside those of
well poisoning
and
host desecration
—have been a major theme in
European persecution of Jews
.
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