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The term “blood libel”, I don’t even know what it mean, to be honest, but I’ve never seen it used in a context that isn’t flat out ridiculous.
Blood Libel refers to the antisemitic trope that Jews eat Gentile babies. I doubt you can find anyone that thinks that now, but it was a very real rumor in the past and contributed to very real persecution across Europe
I didn't know that term either. Now that you've defined it, I'm trying to make sense of that commenter. The best I can come up with is "You're not allowed to call out Israel for murdering children because in the past they were persecuted for a wrongful claim also involving murdered children." Which is an absolute bonkers claim.
You have correctly interpreted it, it sounds bonkers because it is bonkers.
"Everyone said Jews used to eat babies which was really mean and lead to us being persecuted, now that Israelis who also claim to be Jews actually eat babies everyone is persecuting us for it. Do you want us to eat babies or not?!"
Your Government shouldn't be killing children.
How dare you say I eat babies!
i think you'll find that Oprah Winfrey peddled this in her Satanic Panic era.
Nowadays they think Dems eat babies.
It's transformed into the adrenochrome conspiracy theory: a deep state cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles[^pedophiles] kidnaps and tortures children to harvest a chemical from their blood as a psychedelic, life-extending drug. Overlaps with Epstein coverup conspiracy, so still alive & kicking.
[^pedophiles]: liberal politicians, Hollywood elites, George Soros
blood libel is supposed to mean accusations that jewish people eat/drink blood (e.g. Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and one of the many factors that led to the current cultural idea of vampires). it's often mistakenly applied to people describing Israel as "bloodthirsty", but like, that term is universally used for evil of all different ethnicities and religions. that mistake then gets further abstracted into "being against genocide is blood libel".
And you never will
At least you kind of asked what it meant...
Would have been faster to look it up tho:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
It's just wild to me that so many people would spend more time typing a comment admitting they were ignorant of something, than it takes to just search it online so they could stop being ignorant.
And it's not just you, it's happening more and more.
So since I provided a source for what blood libel actual is, can you share why you made that comment instead of just typing "blood libel" into a search engine?
It's because we're on a discussion forum, and discussing things, sometimes asking easily googleable questions, is kinda the point.