Matza in Damascus - The Middle East’s Blood Libel.
On the afternoon of the 5th of July 1840 missionary Father Thomas left for the Jewish quarter to put up a notice about an auction for the benefit of a poor European family, the following day he and his only domestic servant were still missing, Christians were shouting they had been slain by the Jews.
On Friday February 7, police brought a barber named Solomon Halek in for questioning, he said Thomas had been brought to the home of a Jewish businessman where Jews including a Rabbi had slit his throat, that they collected the blood in a large silver bowl to serve for their Passover holiday.
They stripped the dead friar of his vestments then took his body to another room where they cut it to pieces and crushed its bones with an iron grinder, before they put everything into a big coffee sack and threw it into a ditch .. they poured the blood into bottles which they gave to the Rabbi. Link pdf.
On Friday February 7, police brought a barber named Solomon Halek in for questioning, he said Thomas had been brought to the home of a Jewish businessman where Jews including a Rabbi had slit his throat, that they collected the blood in a large silver bowl to serve for their Passover holiday.
They stripped the dead friar of his vestments then took his body to another room where they cut it to pieces and crushed its bones with an iron grinder, before they put everything into a big coffee sack and threw it into a ditch .. they poured the blood into bottles which they gave to the Rabbi. Link pdf.
Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair of 1840.
The Damascus Affair: "Ritual Murder," Politics, and the Jews in 1840.
Jewdayo Grid - The Damascus Affair.
The Damascus Affair - Wikipedia.
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