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CENSORED IMAGE – Before Epstein: the Blood Libels… (sequel) Part II (Sequel of Part I)
1510 AD – In Berlin, the Jews Solomon, Jacob, Aaron, Levi Isaac, Rabbi Mosch, and the butcher Jacob were accused of purchasing a four-year-old Christian boy for 10 guilders from a stranger, placing him on a table in a cellar, and stabbing him with needles in his large, blood-filled veins until he was finally slaughtered by the butcher Jacob. A massive trial began, and ultimately, about a hundred Jews were locked up in Berlin prison. They admitted in part to purchasing Christian children from strangers, stabbing them, draining their blood, and drinking their blood in times of illness or preserving it with tomatoes, ginger, and honey. No fewer than 41 of the accused Jews were sentenced to death by burning after their confession. All other Jews were banished from the Margraviate of Brandenburg. 1529 AD On Ascension Day, in the small town of Bösing, Hungary, several Jews kidnapped a wheelwright’s son. They took him to a cellar, drained his blood with quills and tubes, and hid the bottles in the synagogue. The next day, a woman discovered the child’s mutilated body among the brambles outside the village, his hands bound. Local authorities identified the remains as those of a missing child, recognized by his father. The gruesome nature of the death aroused suspicion in the Jewish community, especially in light of previous similar crimes. David Saifmacher confessed that a Jew named Michel had lured the child into his home, where others had tortured him. Saifmacher also revealed that he had removed the body of another Christian victim five years earlier, confirmed by another Jew, Szecho. Thousands gathered to hear the verdict. The court ordered the execution of thirty Jews from Bösing by burning at the stake. Jewish children were taken in by local families and baptized.
Plaque depicting the ritual murder of Bösing 1540 AD – During the Easter season, a three-year-old boy named Michael Piesenharter, a resident of Sappenfeld, was kidnapped by Jewish merchants operating near Ingolstadt. The child was forcibly taken to a secret location, where he was tied to a column and subjected to severe torture for three days. During this time, the child’s fingers and toes were mutilated, and numerous cross-shaped incisions were made on his body. After his death, the body was hidden under a layer of dry foliage. The discovery of the child’s body was facilitated by a shepherd’s dog. Furthermore, a Jewish child revealed to a non-Jewish classmate that a child had been tortured to death. The Jewish community of Sappenfeld was expelled.
“Michael, the Tortured Boy,” woodcut by Raphael Sadeler (Bavaria Sancta). Right: Woodcut depicting the ritual murder of Michael Piesenharter. 1597 AD – In the town of Szydłów, a young peasant boy was kidnapped and murdered by members of the local Jewish community. The blood from the boy’s body was said to have been used in various rituals, including the consecration of a new synagogue in Szydłów. When the boy’s body was later discovered in an open field, it had numerous penetrating wounds, particularly to the eyelids, neck, veins, limbs, and genitals. According to the Bollandists, the body was found severely contorted, suggesting that the child had been subjected to torture methods involving fire. 1598 AD – In the Polish province of Podolia, a four-year-old boy named Albert Swierzanów was kidnapped by two young Jews and subjected to a ritual massacre according to Jewish rites (shechita) under horrific torture, four days before Passover. The act reportedly took place in the presence of some of the most influential Jews in the region. The child’s body was hidden under barrels and later thrown into a swampy area. One of the accused, Isaac, confessed that the child had been hidden in a cellar for weeks before being killed with a knife used for slaughtering cattle, collecting the blood in a jar. Another suspect, Aaron, expressed a desire to convert to Christianity. However, when he learned that conversion would not spare him punishment, he declared that he preferred to die as a Jew. 1599 CE – In March, in Vilnius, a seven-year-old boy named Szymon Kierelis was subjected to ritual torture and killed by several Jews. The child’s body bore over 170 wounds, inflicted with knives and scissors. In addition to these wounds, there were numerous cuts under the fingernails and toenails. The Bernardines (Franciscans) agreed to bury the body of Szymon Kierelis in their church. In 1623, they installed a commemorative plaque. A prayer in honor of his death. In 1639, in Łęczyca, the child’s body was placed in a glass coffin inside the church, accompanied by a commissioned painting depicting Jews surrounding the child.
 User images “The memorial of the noble boy Simonis Kierelis, a native of Vilnius, cruelly killed at the age of seven by 170 sword strokes, is placed in a tomb in a corner of this church. He was born to Christ in 1592. Erected with the alms of benefactors in 1623 AD.” (Bernardine Church, Vilnius)
1684 AD – In the village of Zwierki, six-year-old Gabriel was kidnapped from his home during Passover, while his parents, pious Orthodox Christians Peter and Anastasia Govdel, were working in a nearby field. Shutko, a Jewish herder from Zwierki, took him to Bialystok, where, in the presence of several Jews, he stabbed him with sharp objects and drained his blood for several days, before bringing the body back to Zwierki and throwing it in a local field. After his body was found, Gabriel was buried in Zwierki. At a funeral in 1720, the grave was accidentally dug up and the body was found to be “supernaturally incorruptible”; the remains were then transferred to the crypt of the Orthodox church in Zwierki. Gabriel’s cult grew over the years, largely thanks to the healings that occurred at his tomb. In 1746, the relics were transferred to Zabłudów and then to several other locations. Gabriel of Białystok, also known as Gabriel of Zabłudów, is a child saint of the Russian and Polish Orthodox Churches. His feast day is celebrated on April 20.
 Top: Archbishop Sawa Hrycuniak blesses the relics of Saint Gabriel (2020). Bottom: Procession of the relics of Saint Gabriel through the streets of Białystok.
1669 AD – On September 25, the eve of Rosh Hashanah, three-year-old Didier Le Moyne disappeared in the woods near the village of Glatigny. His body was later found, horribly mutilated. A Jew named Raphael Levy, who had been seen riding toward Metz that same day, was accused of kidnapping the child. Levy was subsequently arrested, tried, and sentenced to death by burning at the stake on January 17, 1670, by decree of the Parliament of Metz. 133 After the trial, the Parliament petitioned King Louis XIV to expel the 95 Jewish families living in Metz from the province. However, the king forbade any further punitive action against the Jewish community.
1744 CE – On August 5, Joseph Locherer and Anna Aberhämin lost their 8-year-old son, sparking an extensive four-day search. On August 9, the child was found dead in the Monticolo Forest by his father. According to the records of the interrogation on August 12, 1744: a young shepherd reported hearing a child crying in the forest and indicated the direction. The child’s father found his son lying on a tree trunk, brutally murdered. The child’s neck had been stabbed, with red bruises indicating strangulation. His body was mutilated and circumcised. The blood had been drained and the wounds severely injured. While the judges debated jurisdiction and court costs, a Jew, who had been spotted by several witnesses for his suspicious behavior and who had been seen in the area for a long time, fled. The parish priest of St. Pauls, Edmund Leonhard, immediately recognized the death as a Jewish ritual murder. A marble sarcophagus containing the boy’s body remained on display in the parish church of St. Pauls until 1965, and the bloody clothing was preserved as relics.
 Painting on a wooden panel located in the Locherer-Bildstöckl sanctuary in the Monticolo Forest, South Tyrol
1747 AD – In Zasław (Iziaslav), the mutilated body of an unidentified man was found in the melting snow. The right hand had been amputated at the fingers, with blood vessels open up to the elbow and the bones chipped. The left hand was missing three fingers, and the blood vessels and tendons had been pulled out up to the shoulder. Three toes on the left foot had been amputated, the nails had been torn out, blood vessels had been cut out of the calves, and the teeth had been knocked out. The entire body bore numerous stab wounds. Interrogations revealed that the murder had been committed on the orders of the Kahal of Zaslav (קהל / kahal meaning Jewish congregation). A wandering servant had been drunk at a Jewish gin press, then tortured, mutilated, and ritually killed in the presence of the Kahal elders. The torture continued for several days, with the blood collected and sent to the rabbi of Zaslav. The Jewish innkeeper, the elder Kahal, the hazan (cantor), the mohel (surgeon), and the synagogue janitor were indicted.
of Zaslav. On April 26, 1747, eight Jews were sentenced to what the court called “the most severe and cruel punishment,” which included impalement, flaying, quartering alive, and, in one case, the removal of the heart.
1753 CE – On Good Friday, April 20, in a village near Kiev, three-year-old Stefan, son of the nobleman Adam Studzieński, was kidnapped by members of the Jewish community. The child was hidden in a tavern until the end of Shabbat, after which he was ritually sacrificed with the participation of Rabbi Schmaja. The blood was collected in several bottles. The body was then thrown into a nearby forest, where it was discovered by villagers on Easter Sunday. Documents relating to this case were recorded and preserved at the Kiev court. The child was considered a martyr, and his remains were transferred to the local church.
 Woodcut by Stefan Studzieński, originally owned by Father Nicholas Ignacy Wyzyckiego, Archbishop of Metropol
1791 AD – On February 21, in the small village of Pér, a thirteen-year-old boy named Andreas Takáls was ritually murdered. Abraham, a Jew, was arrested in connection with the incident. During the court proceedings, Abraham’s son testified, stating that his father, the rabbi, and other Jews from outside the area had participated in Andreas’s murder. “At night, my father returned home with other Jews, including Rabbi Károlyer. They stripped Andreas of his guba (fur coat), took off his shirt […] They stuffed his mouth with clay, and Jakob tied his feet, hung him with a rope from a beam, and then cut the vein on the right side of his neck, while my father held a lead basin to collect the blood.” Daniel Héczey, a Reformed pastor and eyewitness to the autopsy, noted that during the dissection on February 24, the boy’s body was completely drained of blood, with only a few drops leaking from his left arm, while his internal organs were completely bloodless, and his diaphragm, sexual organs, and bladder were torn.
1803 A.D. – On March 10, a 72-year-old Jew named Hirsch, originally from Sugenheim, arrived in the hamlet of Buchhof and kidnapped a two-year-old boy. When the child was noticed missing, Hirsch suddenly appeared from a nearby forest, crossing a field to return to Buchhof, where he joined the search for the child. The following day, Hirsch denied having been in Buchhof that day. The child’s father attempted to contradict Hirsch’s statement with witness statements, but was met with threats and hostility from the judicial authorities. Twelve days later, the child was found dead, with wounds under the tongue and a bleeding mouth. Despite the harsh weather, the child’s clothes were found clean. The father was forced to sign a document stating that the child, who was still warm when the body was found, had frozen to death…
1823 AD – On April 24, three-year-old Fyodor Ivanov was kidnapped in Velizh by a Jewish woman named Khanna Tsetlina. The child was taken to the home of Mirka Aronson, where he was tortured to death and his blood was extracted. On May 2, his body was discovered in a bush by a dog belonging to a man named Vasilii Kokhanskii. An autopsy revealed severe skin abrasions, multiple wounds from a blunt object, signs of strangulation, and empty intestines without decomposition. Despite numerous eyewitness accounts against the Jewish suspects, the trial was abruptly dismissed, resulting in the acquittal of many defendants. Three key non-Jewish witnesses who had testified that the child’s blood had been collected and distributed among Jewish communities were exiled to Siberia by the Russian State Council.
1827 CE – A seven-year-old Jewish girl named Ben-Noud witnessed a disturbing scene from the roof of her relatives’ house in Antioch. She saw two boys hanging by their legs, blood dripping from their bodies. Horrified by this scene, she ran away crying. When she recounted what had happened, her aunt explained that the children had misbehaved and were being punished. Later, when the boys’ bodies were gone, she discovered a large brass vase filled entirely with blood on the floor of a room.
1834 AD – A Jewish woman, later a convert to Christianity, witnessed an elderly man in Tripoli being ambushed by several Jews and hung by his toes from an orange tree. The man was left hanging in this agonizing position for several hours. As the old man was near death, the Jews cut his neck with a ritual knife and left his body hanging until all the blood was collected in a basin. He later learned that the murderers had packed the body in a chest and thrown it into the sea. He later confessed this account to the orientalist Count Durfort-Civrac.
1840 AD – On February 5, an Italian monk named Father Thomas passed through the Jewish Quarter to post a notice about an auction at the home of a deceased resident. When he did not return home for dinner, his Muslim servant, Ibrahim Amrah, went to the Jewish Quarter to look for him. Neither individual was seen again. A Jewish barber, Solomon Halek, confessed that upon arriving at David Harari’s home, he encountered a group consisting of the three Harari brothers, Joseph Leniado, and two rabbis, Moses Abu el-Afieh and Moses Salonicli. He saw Father Thomas lying on the floor, his arms tied behind his back and his mouth gagged. He was ordered to kill Father Thomas, but refused, citing a lack of courage. He was allowed to leave after being promised money in exchange for his silence. David Harari used a large knife to slit Father Thomas’s throat. Meanwhile, the two rabbis and Harari’s brother meticulously drained the blood. David Harari’s servant, Murad al-Fatal, was ordered to do the same to Ibrahim Amrah. He later confessed that the blood had been collected in a basin and then placed in a white bottle, called a khalabièh. Rabbi Afieh confessed that the blood was intended to make “consecrated bread” for specific Jewish holidays, but also clarified that this bread was given only to “ḥakam and zealots.” 164 The Office of the Governor-General, which included a rabbi who converted from Judaism to Islam, claimed that the blood had been drained for the Passover celebration. It noted that in Judaism, “there are two kinds of blood acceptable to God: the blood of Passover and the blood of circumcision.” This statement likely refers to the text of the Midrash Rabbah, specifically “Ruth Rabbah 6:1.” Eliahu Picciotto, the Austrian consul in Aleppo, reported the incident to Jewish communities throughout Europe. This prompted the intervention of influential leaders within the global Jewish community, particularly the Rothschild family and the Jewish financier and banker Moses Montefiore, who personally appealed to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to secure the release of the prisoners. The accused were subsequently released.
 Portrait of Father Thomas and his servant Ibrahim Amrah (Journal L’Orient)
1843 AD – Historian and traveler Pierre Nicolas Hamont reported in his famous book “L’Égypte sous Mehemet Ali” (1843) that several children were ritually murdered by Jews on the islands of Rhodes and Corfu. According to French diplomat and writer Achille Laurent, in 1812, three Jews who had strangled a child were sentenced to death in Corfu in October. Shortly thereafter, the son of a Greek named Riga was kidnapped on this island and ritually slaughtered. Austrian writer and journalist Stauf von der March reported that in 1824 another case of ritual murder involving Jews occurred on the island of Corfu. Furthermore, a similar incident occurred in 1840 on the island of Rhodes, where a twelve-year-old boy from the village of Trianta was ritually murdered.
1879 AD – In Kutaisi, a group of Jews kidnapped and ritually murdered a six-year-old girl named Sarra Iosifovna Modebadze. Incisions had been made between her fingers with a knife, and horizontal cuts were present on her legs, just above the calves. Remarkably, not a single drop of blood remained in her veins. With the help of influential Jews in Russia, those responsible for this horrific act managed to escape punishment. 173 The incident, known as the “Kutaisi Affair,” quickly gained notoriety and spread throughout society. Fyodor Dostoevsky briefly mentions this event in a letter written in 1879: “How disgusting it is that the Jews of Kutaisi [kutaisskikh zhidov] were acquitted… Here they are undoubtedly guilty.”
1881 CE – In early April, a ritual massacre occurred in Alexandria involving a Greek boy named Evangelos Fornarakis. His body was found on the beach, completely drained of blood and pierced. His parents refused to hand over the body to the Egyptian authorities, so it remained in his father’s house, on public display for several days, until it was forcibly transported to a Greek hospital, where Jewish and Turkish doctors determined that he had drowned. This incited considerable unrest and led to a revolt against the Jewish community. Despite clear evidence of the crime, an international commission concluded that there was only a “possibility of murder.” The Jewish Baruch family, strongly suspected of the crime, was granted provisional freedom.
1882 AD – Two days before Passover, in the village of Tisza-Eszlár, a 14-year-old girl named Eszter Solymosi disappeared while taking a shortcut home, passing a secluded synagogue. Her disappearance sparked an intense search by her mother and aunt, who approached the synagogue, where they encountered the temple servant, Scharf, and his wife. Their meeting was marred by disturbing comments from the Scharfs, who insinuated that Eszter might simply have fallen ill. A few days later, rumors began to spread when Scharf’s young son told other children that he had heard rumors of a murder inside the synagogue. On May 19, following growing concerns, a formal investigation was launched, which led to the arrest of the Scharf family. During the investigation, the eldest son, Moritz Scharf, broke down and provided a detailed account of how Eszter had been lured into the synagogue, stripped, and subjected to a ritual slaughter. He testified in court that he had witnessed the murder through the keyhole of the synagogue’s inner door. During the proceedings, numerous individuals came forward with testimonies further incriminating members of the Jewish community, increasing tensions and fueling the belief that a ritual murder had occurred.
Left: Painting “Eszter Solymosi” by Ludwig Ábrányi (book by Géza Ónody) Right: Contemporary portrait by Móric Scharf (Vasárnapi Ujság, July 1883) 1891 AD – On the evening of June 29 in Xanten, the lifeless body of Johann Hegmann, a five-year-old boy, the son of a local carpenter, was discovered by a housekeeper named Dora Moll. The body was found in a barn used for storing fruit, owned by a town councilor named Kupper. The child was lying on his side with his legs spread apart and had a meticulously executed circular incision, suggesting a ritual motif and indicating the work of a skilled hand. His body appeared pale due to significant blood loss. Before his disappearance, three witnesses had seen him being forcibly taken to the residence of the Jewish butcher Adolf Buschoff. Convinced by the overwhelming evidence, the citizens demanded justice against Buschoff and his family, who narrowly escaped the ensuing public outrage. Although the royal prosecutor of Xanten initially exempted Buschoff from the investigation, he was eventually arrested thanks to the insistence of a renowned criminal lawyer from Berlin.
The funerary sculpture on the grave of the young martyr Johan Hegmann (Xanten municipal cemetery) 1891 AD – In April, the mutilated and bloodless body of an eight-year-old girl was found in a sack near a synagogue in Corfu. The body was discovered by Salomon Vita Sarda, a Jewish tailor who identified himself as the father. However, Sarda’s composed demeanor aroused suspicion. An autopsy later revealed that the child had been meticulously bled to death through multiple needle pricks. The crime gave rise to widespread rumors suggesting it was a ritual murder related to Jewish customs. These rumors were supported by a medical report from Doctors Elias Politis, Demetrios Papanikolas (police physician), and Frankiskos Thermoyannis (municipal physician), which confirmed that “there was not a drop of blood.” It was also claimed that the victim was not Sarda’s daughter, Rubina, but a Christian girl named Maria Dessyla, kidnapped from Ioannina. The rabbi of Corfu presented a false Jewish birth certificate stating that the murdered child was the daughter of Solomon Sarda. However, the official Greek registry contained no trace linking the child to Sarda, despite her long-standing residence in Corfu. Four individuals were charged with the ritual murder: the tailor Salomon Sarda, the synagogue attendant Naxon, the Jewish community gravedigger, and a Jewish beggar named Ephraim.
French soldiers seal off the Jewish quarter during the 1891 anti-Semitic riots in Corfu (JMG Photo Archive) 1892 CE – During Passover in Port Said, an 85-year-old rabbi named Carmona lured a four-year-old Greek girl, Helene Vasiliou, into his home. The act was reportedly witnessed by several people. Responding to the girl’s disappearance, a group of Greeks, including the girl’s mother, requested a search of Carmona’s home. After a thorough search, they discovered a small, dark room. The door to the room was forced open, revealing an elderly Jewish woman trying to hide the badly injured child, whose eyes and mouth were taped. The crowd’s anger was unleashed.The discovery was finalized, resulting in the brutal beating of the elderly woman. The little girl, wounded by a sharp object, died two days later. This discovery sparked outrage in the Greek community, leading to widespread unrest, quickly quelled by the intervention of Egyptian and British military forces. 1898/1899 AD – In the Bohemian district of Tschaslau (Čáslav), two murders occurred within two years. On July 17, 1898, twenty-three-year-old Marie Klima disappeared while hiking in Ober-Wieschnitz, near Polna. Her body was found months later in the Březina Forest, under suspicious circumstances that made it difficult to identify her killer. On March 29, 1899, Anežka Hrůzová, a 19-year-old Czech Catholic seamstress, disappeared after leaving work in Polná. Her body was found three days later in the same forest, her throat slit and her clothes torn. The court physicians, Dr. Michalek and Dr. Prokeš, concluded that the victim had died of severe hemorrhage, but surprisingly, only minimal traces of blood were found at the scene. This led them to believe that the blood had likely been drained and collected elsewhere. The small amount of blood present at the scene, combined with the coincidence of Passover, raised suspicions of a Jewish ritual murder. Leopold Hilsner, a 23-year-old itinerant Jew frequently spotted in the forest, quickly became the focus of the investigation. 199 He was subsequently arrested and put on trial. Despite several witnesses and circumstantial evidence pointing to Hilsner, he was initially released thanks to the involvement of a Jewish judge. In response, the local community boycotted Jewish businesses, and the local savings bank cut off credit to Jews. In the second trial, Hilsner was sentenced to death for the murders of Anežka Hrůzová and Marie Klímová, receiving the death sentence on November 14, 1900. Emperor Franz Joseph commuted the sentence to life imprisonment on June 11, 1901. But toward the end of World War I, Emperor Charles I granted him a pardon.
 Left: The site of Anežka Hrůzová’s murder with the memorial plaque. Right: The symbolic grave of Anežka Hrůzová, Březina Forest 1900 CE – On March 11, 19-year-old Ernst Winter, a high school student from Konitz, disappeared after being last seen near the home of a Jewish merchant. Two days later, rescuers found a package under the ice in the town reservoir containing a torso, later identified by Winter’s father as his son’s remains. Additional body parts were later recovered from the lake. Police Commissioner Wehn from Berlin arrived two and a half weeks later, convinced that the killers were not Jewish. 206 He aggressively questioned witnesses, dismissing any statements implicating Jews. He eventually shifted the focus of the investigation to a Gentile butcher, Hoffmann. Ultimately, the charges against Hoffmann were dropped when it was demonstrated that the murder occurred during a period for which Hoffmann had a verifiable alibi. As evidence increasingly pointed to the home of the Jewish butcher Adolf Lewy, the judicial investigation was ultimately forced to focus on the Lewy family, despite efforts to spare the Jewish community from scrutiny. Two Berlin doctors conducted a post-autopsy examination of Ernst Winter’s body parts and confirmed the findings of the Konitz doctors, noting that the body was completely bloodless. They concluded that Winter had been ritually murdered, with the neck cut and the major blood vessels severed. The doctors indicated that the body had been precisely dismembered using a knife and a saw. Furthermore, on the day of the murder, a large number of foreign Jews were in Konitz, departing the following day without any plausible reason for their visit. Among them were the butchers Haller of Tuchel, Hamburger of Schlochau, and Steinke of Prechlau. This case is known as the “Konitz Affair.”
 Illustration of the ritual murder by Ernst Winter
1911 AD – On March 20, the body of a boy was discovered in a clay pit on the outskirts of Kiev, near a brick factory. The victim, partially clothed and with his hands tied behind his back, was identified as thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky. A forensic autopsy revealed 47 stab and puncture wounds throughout his body and head, with significant blood loss, suggesting death by exsanguination. Experts concluded that all the wounds had been inflicted while the boy was still alive, and the absence of blood at the scene indicated that he had been killed elsewhere and that his body had been moved to the pit. Some experts, including Professor Sikorsky, suggested and they concluded that the murder had been carefully planned, with indications of ritualistic elements. Suspicion soon fell on Mendel Beilis, the Jewish superintendent of the brick factory. The trial attracted international attention and prompted widespread efforts by Jewish communities to challenge the legitimacy of the charges. A key witness, Ludmilla Cheberyak, a friend of Andrei Yushchinsky, confirmed that Beilis had kidnapped him. Several key prosecution witnesses died under sudden and suspicious circumstances. Despite the prosecution’s efforts and the presentation of substantial evidence, Beilis was ultimately acquitted, an outcome considered a significant victory for the Jewish community. Beilis and his family left Russia to settle on land in Palestine, generously provided by Baron Rothschild. Beilis died in a New York hotel in 1934 and was buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery, which is also the burial place of Leo Frank.
 Top: The body of Andrei Yushchinsky in a coffin during his funeral. Bottom: Menahem Mendel Beilis under guard during his trial.
1918 CE – Recent statements by the Russian Orthodox Church have suggested that the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his family was a Jewish ritual murder. Although evidence regarding the ritual nature of the killings remains inconclusive, it is a fact that Jewish individuals were responsible for organizing and carrying out the murder. The operation was organized by Yakov Sverdlov, the Jewish chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK), and Philip Goloshchyokin, the Jewish military commissar of the Ural Regional Soviet. The execution itself was overseen by Yakov Yurovsky, Jewish head of the local Cheka, who personally supervised the killings and fired the first shots at Tsar Nicholas II.
 [American Jewish Rosh Hashanah postcard] Tsar Nicholas II depicted as the sacrificial chicken in the Kapparot ritual performed on the eve of Yom Kippur. The Hebrew phrases are associated with this tradition.
1929 CE – The body of the young boy Karl Kessler was discovered in a forest near Manau on March 17, a few days before Passover. The autopsy revealed that the body had been almost completely exsanguinated, with only a small amount remaining in the left ventricle. Rumors of a Jewish ritual murder spread quickly, gaining support among both the local population and some of the investigating officials. It was shortly before Passover, and the local Jewish butcher had suddenly disappeared. Dr. Burgel, the medical examiner, declared it a case of ritual murder. Although the case remained unsolved, a memorial plaque was erected at the site, identifying the boy as a victim of ritual murder.
 Photograph by Karl Kessler
1935 AD – On October 7, the Russian newspaper “Наш путь” (Nasch Put), which translates to “Our Way,” published in Harbin, reported an incident in Afghanistan. A Muslim child was kidnapped and stabbed to death. The report stated that this atrocious act was perpetrated by individuals of Jewish origin and that the stabbings were carried out for ritual purposes of their religion.
Conclusion Since the end of World War II, criticism of Jewish communities in the Western world has been forcibly silenced and repressed. This, of course, includes accusations of ritual murder, which most modern historians dismiss as manifestations of medieval-era prejudice.
This repression may explain the apparent disappearance of such accusations over the past 90 years.
In my research, I have found no recent cases of Jewish ritual murder, with the possible exceptions of “The Unsolved Murder of 5 Chicago Children” in 1955 and the case of St. Philomena (Hasapis) of Jacob’s Well. However, the currently available evidence relating to these two incidents does not conclusively prove a ritual element.
The recent discovery of an illegal tunnel beneath a synagogue in New York City has drawn considerable attention to this previously forgotten aspect of the Jewish problem.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and several newspapers have reported that the tunnel’s discovery has sparked “conspiracy theories about child trafficking and blood libel.” However, the use of the term “conspiracy theories” may be somewhat dishonest, especially in light of the numerous cases that have emerged in New York City in recent years.
Finally, I must point out that I have personally witnessed the active suppression of this particular issue. In January 2024, I created a Twitter thread discussing the story.
about Jewish ritual murder, which attracted considerable attention and was shared by some prominent figures on the platform. The thread also attracted criticism, including from the president of “America’s fastest-growing Jewish newspaper,”Dovid Efune, who publicly suggested that Elon Musk reduce its visibility. Shortly after the post reached over 730,000 views, I received a warning from Twitter, demanding that I delete the thread’s opening tweet due to alleged “explicit content” (despite the fact that the Simone di Trento painting I had shared had been posted on the platform numerous times without issue). To regain access to my account, I complied and deleted the tweet, effectively stifling the entire thread.
Left: Screenshot of the opening post in the thread on Jewish ritual murder. Right: X (Twitter) requesting the post’s removal. Thank to T.T.Timayenis End of Part II |
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