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The Blood Libel
In an unprecedented attack in an Omani paper, journalist Shawqi Hafiz wrote of those who like their matzos “baked withuman blood.” Eating Jewish matzos with Christian blood, he explained, was the best way to restore health and rejuvenate the sexual lust of old men. To support his claim, Hafiz referred to Najib al-Kilani’s book Blood for the Matzah of Zion -- a tract based on the 1840 blood libel in Damascus, in which the Jewish community was accused of murdering Franciscan Brother Toma in order to bake their matzos with his blood. Israel submitted an official protest to the Sultan of Oman (al-Watan, 19 April; Ma`ariv, 5 May). Al-Barghuti’s article (mentioned above) charged that the blood of the Iraqis, descendants of the Canaanites, was used in the matzah of Israel, which was “kneaded with American weaponry and the missiles of hatred pointed at both Muslim and Christian Arabs” (al-Usbu` al-Adabi, 27 Nov.).