Blood Libel

Israel must treat the media war as seriously as Iran’s nuclear threat, Gil Hoffman says

MEDIA AFFAIRS: Gil Hoffman talks to the ‘Post’ about his new book 'The Blood Libel Machine' and Israel’s war for global public opinion.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Author Gil Hoffman stands with his new book, ‘The Blood Libel Machine,’ which argues that the spread of anti-Israel narratives and the surge in global antisemitism were the result of a premeditated information campaign that had been in the works for decades.
This general view shows the logo of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on January 12, 2024, prior to the hearing of the genocide case against Israel, brought by South Africa.

Prominent scholars, legal experts among 6,000 signatories to letter rejecting Gaza genocide charge

“The bitter irony is that Israel, home to half the world’s Jews, is the only country to face a sustained war of attempted genocide – from its inception in 1948 until today,” the letter states.

|BySAM HALPERN
Protesters carry Palestinian flags near the White House, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 28, 2026

CAM weekly antisemitism report: Demonstration outside Israel’s US embassy descends into blood libel

Demonstrators drenched the pavement in fake blood invoking classical "blood libel" tropes long used to incite antisemitic violence.

|ByCOMBAT ANTISEMITISM MOVEMENT
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk (R) looks on next to Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nashif during a UN Human Rights Council debate over Israel’s actions on September 16, 2025. PremiumPremium

The blood libel that won't die: How the UN weaponized genocide claims against Israel - analysis

How accusations of genocide have become the latest expression of a centuries-old campaign to demonize the Jewish state

|ByBEN COHEN

Yes, they really asked Josh Shapiro if he’s an Israeli spy - comment

What they asked Josh Shapiro during VP vetting reveals everything about how Jews are treated in America.

JANUARY 19, 2026ByZVIKA KLEIN
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks during the a campaign kickoff rally earlier this month.

The silence that surrenders America: Why Jews know they can’t trust JD Vance anymore - opinion

JD Vance must choose: will he be the man who slams the door on antisemitism, or the one who lets it in?

DECEMBER 9, 2025ByADAM SCOTT BELLOS
US Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks to members of the US military on November 26, 2025 in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

‘Israel’s Friendsgiving’ protest at DC train station includes ‘Gaza’s spilled blood’ on the menu

“Seldom have we seen such a sickening display of full-throated antisemitism,” the local JCRC said.

NOVEMBER 21, 2025ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
A demonstration outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., showed U.S. and Israeli leaders eating and drinking the blood and organs of Gaza Palestinians, Nov. 20, 2025.

'Just as the Third Reich lost its right to exist, so too did Israel' Tel Hai College professor says

"Israeli academia cannot serve as a sanctuary for individuals spreading blood libels against their own country," Professors for a Strong Israel said, strongly condemning Hairston's post.

OCTOBER 23, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Tel Hai College.

Countering media bias against Jews: Why I launched a journalism fellowship - opinion

The future of the Jewish story – our truth, our place in history – will be written with or without us, and if we remain on the sidelines, others will write it for us.

AUGUST 20, 2025ByJACKI KARSH
Demonstrators holding a banner protest in solidarity with Pro-Palestinian organizers as they block a street, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in New York City, US. April 18, 2024.

The Gaza food aid 'massacre': Yet another modern blood libel - opinion

Is it even remotely plausible that there were no Hamas fighters embedded among them, ready to pounce on Israeli soldiers? If so, then those deaths could reasonably be characterized as self-defense.

JULY 12, 2025ByWALTER E. BLOCK, ODED J.K. FARAN
Palestinians walk to collect aid supplies from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025.

Fighting for Israel’s legitimacy is today’s frontline for Jews worldwide – opinion

Every Jew is called to defend our shared values and uphold the moral right to a Jewish state in today's fight to defend Israel.

APRIL 30, 2025ByDORON PEREZ
THE WRITER addresses outgoing religious Zionist emissaries in 2022. ‘We all now stand on the frontlines in the battle for Israel’s legitimacy,’ he asserts.

Secret meanings: Third of QAnon subreddits contain implicit antisemitism - study

Two specific QAnon subreddits were chosen - r/CBTS_Stream and r/greatawakening - both of which were deplatformed in 2018 due to threats of violence.

MARCH 30, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
Jacob Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, holding a sign referencing QAnon, speaks as supporters of US President Donald Trump gather to protest about the early results of the 2020 presidential election

This week in Jewish history: Purim story, mass suicide, killing of York's Jews

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars

MARCH 15, 2025BySTEVEN DRUCKER
'Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther' by Rembrandt, 1660, at Moscow's Pushkin Museum

Rare document sheds light on the Damascus Blood Libel, 185 years later

In the age of misinformation, the Damascus Blood Libel sheds light on the harm that can be created by rumors.

MARCH 3, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The first "fake news" of the modern era and its impact on the lives of Damascus Jews