THE OLD LIE THAT REFUSES TO DIE
The resurrection of anti-Jewish blood libels. How the blood libel survived eight centuries, found Wi-Fi, and returned to the streets of Toronto.
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Most people who casually speak about libel have no idea what the word means. Libel is not an insult, nor a heated quarrel, nor even the kind of sharp dispute that intellectual life necessarily demands. Libel is defamation: a publicly circulated falsehood designed to stain a person or a people with cri…
