blood libel
Medieval antisemitic myth
Blood libel is the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals, particularly for Passover.
This medieval slander persisted for centuries, inciting pogroms and massacres across Europe.
The term now sometimes extends to any malicious fabrication against a group: She called the accusation a blood libel against her community.
Bigotry toward Jewish people
- pogromsOrganized persecution of minorities
- Middle AgesEurope's feudal millennium
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
- expulsionForced permanent removal
ghetto · medieval · Christianity · scapegoating · crusades · Dreyfus affair · Norwich · forced conversion
Violent persecution of minorities
- scapegoatUnfairly blamed person
- witch-huntPersecution of supposed subversives
- ostracismBanishment from a group
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
bigotry · intolerance · prejudice · victimization · ghettoization · exclusion · marginalization · oppression
Baseless belief in omens
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- hoaxDeliberate deception for effect
canard · folklore · fable · disinformation · rumor · paranoia · demonization · othering
Deliberate untrue statement
- allegationAssertion lacking proof
- smearSpread or defame
- calumnyMalicious false statement
- canardUnfounded malicious rumor
defamation · vilification · aspersion · fabrication · imputation · charge · indictment · denunciation
antisemitism
Bigotry toward Jewish people
- pogromsOrganized persecution of minorities
- Middle AgesEurope's feudal millennium
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
expulsion · ghetto · medieval · Christianity · scapegoating · crusades · Dreyfus affair · Norwich · forced conversion
pogrom
Violent persecution of minorities
- scapegoatUnfairly blamed person
- witch-huntPersecution of supposed subversives
- ostracismBanishment from a group
discrimination · bigotry · intolerance · prejudice · victimization · ghettoization · exclusion · marginalization · oppression · harassment
superstition
Baseless belief in omens
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- propagandaBiased information for influence
hoax · canard · folklore · fable · disinformation · rumor · paranoia · demonization · othering · fearmongering
falsehood
Deliberate untrue statement
- allegationAssertion lacking proof
- smearSpread or defame
- calumnyMalicious false statement
canard · defamation · vilification · aspersion · fabrication · imputation · charge · indictment · denunciation · insinuation
- Jewish HistoryHolocaust, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon
- Conspiraciesconspiracy, deep state, new world order, chemtrails, flat earth
- oppressionoppression, tyranny, racism, repression, secret police
- antisemitismHolocaust, pogroms, Kristallnacht, Nuremberg Laws, concentration camps
- Ashkenazi historyAshkenazi, Ashkenazi Jews, shtetl, Yiddish, yeshiva
- blood loreritual purity, animal sacrifice, purification rites, purification rituals, sacrificial rites
blood libelvindication
Clearance of blame
exoneration · exculpation · defense · apologia · rehabilitation
line, blood, bleed, bloody, bleeding, bloodline, libel, slander, bloodshed