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"14,000 starving babies": Return of the Blood Libel

"14,000 starving babies": Return of the Blood Libel

And no: We didn't kill Jesus either.

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FOREWORD FROM THE EDITOR (Daniel Clarke-Serret)

Lincolnshire is famous for three things: Isaac Newton, Margaret Thatcher and the most famous case of blood libel in history.

It was here that the death of “Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln” was falsely attributed to the Jews of England. They had killed Jesus once before and now the blood-suckers had returned …

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Francisco J. Bernal writes in Spanish and English from his home in the UK, tracing stories that slip between silence and memory, exile and return. His Substack, The Lantern and the Void, follows the light that escapes through history’s cracks.
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