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How the 'blood libel' paradox keeps the west silent on Israel's genocide

Jonathan Cook
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-08-08/blood-libel-paradox-israel-genocide/

Publisher:  Jonathan Cook Blog
Date Written:  08/08/2025
Year Published:  2025  
Resource Type:  Article

Author Jonathan Cook analyzes the paradox of the "blood libel" concept. This all-too-familiar phenomeneon is at work, not only in being used to justify Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, but int other instances of Western colonialism as well. Cook demonstartes how the 'blood liel' concept is used as a means of gaining control and justifyiing atrocities.

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There’s a dangerous paradox that helps to dissuade people, especially public figures, from speaking up even as Israel’s genocide in Gaza grows more horrifying by the day. Let us call it the "blood libel" paradox.

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Israel's active, months-long starvation of Gaza's children is a "humanitarian crisis", not a crime against humanity.

Anyone who dissents from this narrative is denounced as an antisemite, whether they be millions of ordinary people; every respected human rights organisation in the world, including the Israeli group B'Tselem; the World Health Organisation; the International Criminal Court; genocide scholars like Omer Bartov, himself an Israeli; and so on.

It is the perfect, self-reinforcing loop, one entirely divorced from the reality being live-streamed to us daily.

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It is the ultimate "get out of jail" card.


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