Blood Libels

Well, that's depressing. We talked about blood libels in class today. Stories were told all over Europe that Jews killed innocent children and used their blood as a spread for their matzah during Passover. (This is utterly absurd, as Jews in no way want to eat blood on their unleavened bread.) Crowds used these stories as excuses/starters for pogroms of murder and rape. Notice the apparent "reblaming" of the Jews for killing an innocent Christ.