Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters Spain’s Catholic church has said it will investigate antisemitic rituals after an Israeli newspaper revealed that towns and villages continue to commemorate the “blood libel” that Jews use the blood of Christian children in religious rituals. The libel, that dates back at least to the early middle ages, was used to justify the expulsion of Spain’s Jewish population in 1492. Ha’aretz newspaper reported last weekend that the myth is perpetuated each year in parishes in Toledo, Zaragoza and elsewhere, with rituals supported by both the church and the local authority. One of the most notorious is that...
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