A myth needs to be continually retold and revived to stay alive.
On the eve of Passover in 1983, middle school students in the Arab village of Arrabeh, in the Jenin district, were experiencing difficulty breathing and headaches. The Arabs announced that they were victims of mass poisoning by Israel. A team of Israeli experts arrived, but found no traces of poison.
A major Northern European newspaper with politically correct credentials had made a point of reviving another blood lie in 21st-century Europe.
Arab and foreign journalists accused Israel of concealing a heinous “crime.” UN resolutions and international condemnation followed. Then Israel called the renowned Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The American experts confirmed what Israeli epidemiologists had been saying since day one. It was a clever deception carried out by the Arabs.
On August 17, 2009, Aftonbladet, Sweden’s oldest and best-selling newspaper, published an article by Donald Bostrom, in which the journalist, without sources or evidence, wrote that the Israeli army, in collusion with the medical establishment, had kidnapped numerous Arabs for their organs. A major Northern European newspaper with politically correct credentials had made a point of reviving another blood lie in 21st-century Europe.
A myth needs to be continually retold to stay alive. And so, in addition to poisoning wells, spreading diseases, trafficking organs and killing infants, the Jews have once again proven themselves greedy, and despite millions of tons of food sent into Gaza, are starving people. With the Gaza war, all the old accusations and blood legends against the people of Israel have returned.
The totally delusional Aftonbladet story, with some narrative changes, would end up in Arab newspapers and be amplified: The Algerian daily al Akhbar wrote that Arab gangs in the pay of Jews were kidnapping Algerian children and selling them to Israelis for their organs.
Over the past two years, media outlets in Islamic countries (and even European ones) have published a cartoon depicting a Jew with his mouth dripping with blood and the corpse of a child in his hands.
Yes, a myth needs to be continually retold to stay alive. Yes, with the war in Gaza, all the old false accusations and legends of bloodshed perpetrated by the people of Israel have returned.
“Palestinian President” Mahmoud Abbas even went to the plenary session of the European Parliament to claim that a rabbi had asked the Israeli government to poison Palestinian water. Another Palestinian Arab “blunder”. At the end of his speech, Abbas received loud applause and a standing ovation from many parliamentarians. It took a while for the old caryatid of Ramallah to apologize.
“Palestinian President” Mahmoud Abbas even went to the plenary session of the European Parliament to claim that a rabbi had asked the Israeli government to poison Palestinian water.
Even the former Dutch Prime Minister, Dries van Agt, who died a year ago via euthanasia, brought up the story that Israelis were poisoning Palestinian Arabs: “One morning, something terrible happened: the Palestinian Arabs’ olive grove and vegetable garden were covered in poison. And a three-year-old girl became seriously ill. The only explanation was that she had drunk the milk of a poisoned goat. She had been poisoned.”
Jews poisoning goats. Perhaps after harvesting their organs.
Palestinian Arabs then exposed another “Israeli plot to suppress the growth of the Arab population.”
They claimed to have tested packets of strawberry-flavored chewing gum, which was discovered to be laced with sex hormones and sold cheaply near schools in the ‘West Bank’ and Gaza Strip. It was claimed that the chewing gum aroused irresistible sexual appetites in women, sterilizing them.
As historian Georges Bensoussan put it in Le Figaro last week, “once a poisoner of wells and a thief of the blood of Christian children, a purveyor of the ‘Black Death’, the Jewish people is now declared a starver and a genocidal force with the same obsession: that of excluding them from the human race yesterday, that of excluding them from the register of nations today.”
Let’s think for a moment about the media headlines: “14,000 newborns will die in Gaza within 48 hours”. Not from disease, not from natural disasters, not from famine, but, implicitly, at the hands of the Jewish state. This is not hysteria from a Swedish or Algerian newspaper. This is not war propaganda in the style of the Iranian Supreme Leader in the 7th century. We are talking about a totally fabricated statement made by a senior United Nations official, Tom Fletcher, to the BBC. And although the figure was later denied, the damage, unfortunately, had taken root like weeds in the dull minds of Westerners.
Israel has thus become the locus of all evil, whose forms, as sanctioned by the Quran, marry those entrenched in Christian and progressive anti-Semitic traditions.
On the evening of October 17, 2023, an explosion in the parking lot of the Ahli Hospital in Gaza caused many casualties. It was caused by a missile launched from Gaza towards Israel. But Hamas’s propaganda office, more adept than Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, had figured out how to exploit the incident in the media war against Israel, which it would later win. The result was a deadly statement: “Israel bombs Gaza hospital, 500 dead.” Thus, the Ahli hoax was accepted without scrutiny by the world and Italian media. Like the story of the mass graves in Gaza.
A few days ago, on Italian television, the Italian UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese and new idol of the woke left said: “The Israelis are shooting children in the head and testicles in the food line”. Testicles, no less.
Israel has thus become the locus of all evil, whose forms, as sanctioned by the Quran, marry those entrenched in Christian and progressive anti-Semitic traditions.
By betting on hatred of Jews, Yahya Sinwar has already won his war in Gaza.
And since the only organ stolen is the brain of Westerners who believe these lies, let’s expect someone on European televisions to reveal that the evil Jews are kidnapping Arab children to bake matza for Passover.
Published originally on August 21, 2025.
