Up to half of this “aid” has been in the form of shrouds for Palestinian dead, and the remainder has not been distributed. No food or supplies have reached the population since the 2nd of March. Almost everyone inside Gaza is suffering from severe malnutrition, with disease rampant and medical services overwhelmed and under constant bombardment. Over 3,000 people have died in the past two months. Ninety-eight people were killed on Tuesday this week.

They aren’t sending aid.

They’re sending tanks.

A comprehensive invasion is currently ethnically cleansing the strip from north to south. The zionists have established increasingly shrinking “humanitarian zones,” outside of which Palestinians are killed on sight, and have forced the nearly 2 million surviving Palestinians in Gaza into highly concentrated “refugee camps” in the south. The zionist state regularly bombs these refugee camps, resulting in horrific casualties. Since the 15th of May, the 77th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, israel’s bombardment of the surviving population of Gaza has intensified to unprecedented levels. Around 100 people are being killed every day by the relentless bombings. 

Every leading scholar on genocide worldwide is calling this what it is, but the mainstream media refuses to report accurately on conditions in Gaza. They refuse to admit that this is an intentionally targeted genocide, being waged with our tax dollars, our “defense” industry, and our complicity. Instead they are under standing orders to continue to run PR for the genocidal zionist occupation of Palestine. The world’s governments continue to make symbolic gestures, denouncing the occupation’s actions in words while continuing to support it in practice..

The United States is the primary beneficiary and driver of this zionist atrocity; all pressure must be exerted on the United States government to cease. This genocide is U.S.-backed, U.S.-funded, and is being carried out with tactical direction from U.S. soldiers.

SILENCE IS COMPLICITY IN THE ZIONIST HOLOCAUST.

Immediate action is desperately needed on all fronts:

Arms shipments to the zionist occupation of Palestine must be stopped immediately. Visit workersinpalestine.org/who-arms-israel for a list of weapons companies involved in materially enabling the genocide.

Relief is desperately needed for the hundreds of thousands of people starving under intense bombardment. Visit gazafunds.org to contribute to relief funds, every donation helps the people of Palestine resist genocide, every donation is a potential life saved.

Visit chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza to help provide e-sims to keep Palestinians in Gaza in contact with their families and the outside world.

Visit bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott for information on which companies are investing in, or directly involved in the occupation. 

Spread this message everywhere you can. This Holocaust is being systematically covered up through mainstream media silence and social media censorship. Visit clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2025-05-23-emergency-bulletin-zionists-begin-last-stage-of-genocide for the web version of this article, or unity-struggle-unity.org/palestine-emergency-bulletin-tri-fold for a printable PDF copy. Get this message into as many hands as possible! With every hour that passes more innocent men, women, children, and babies are being murdered. U.S. bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes, built with parts from Canada, the E.U., targeted by surveillance drones from the U.K. 

SILENCE IS COMPLICITY. 

INACTION IS COMPLICITY. 

THIS HOLOCAUST IS BEING CARRIED OUT IN OUR NAME.

WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ENDING IT.

The feda’i (resistance) operations are capable of creating victory in this battle.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine salutes the heroes of the resistance operation in the “Ra’anana” area in our land occupied in 1948, which resulted in several zionist deaths and injuries using the simplest means, armed with the will and mentality of the Palestinian fighter who has always devised new ways to strike the occupation.

The Front calls for the escalation of all forms of resistance against the zionist enemy in the occupied West Bank and our land occupied in 1948, emphasizing that the resistance of our people in the occupied West Bank will make a difference in this crucial battle with the zionist enemy.

That the national duty today calls for every Palestinian to confront the comprehensive genocide war waged by the enemy against our people. The enemy’s attempt to single out Palestinian communities successively must be met with an uprising and comprehensive resistance with all its tools.

The Front mourns the martyrs of our people who fell in the occupied West Bank and steadfast Gaza, confirming that the resistance of our people continues, and that our people’s patience will be longer than that of the occupier who will pay the price for his delusions about prolonging the war.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Central Media Department

January 15, 2024

توجهت الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين بالتحية الى أبطال العملية الفدائية في منطقة رعنانا في أرضنا المحتلة عام ١٩٤٨، والتي اسقطت مجموعة من القتلى والجرحى الصهاينة باستخدام ابسط الوسائل و متسلحة بإرادة وعقلية الفدائي الفلسطيني الذي طالما ابدع طرقا جديدة لضرب الاحتلال.

ودعت الجبهة الى تصعيد كل اشكال المقاومة في وجه العدو الصهيوني في الضفة المحتلة وارضنا المحتلة عام ١٩٤٨، مشددة أن مقاومة أبناء شعبنا في الضفة المحتلة ستصنع الفارق في هذه المعركة المفصلية مع العدو الصهيوني.

وأكدت الجبهة أن الواجب الوطني اليوم يدعو كل فلسطيني للتصدي لحرب الابادة الشاملة التي يشنها العدو ضد شعبنا، وأن محاولة العدو للتفرد بالتجمعات الفلسطينية تباعا، يجب أن تواجه بالانتفاضة والمقاومة الشاملة بكل أدواتها.

ونعت الجبهة شهداء شعبنا الذين سقطوا على أرض الضفة المحتلة وغزة الصامدة، مؤكدة ان مقاومة شعبنا مستمرة، وأن نفس شعبنا سيكون أطول من نفس المحتل الذي سيدفع ثمن أوهامه حول اطالة امد الحرب.

الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين

دائرة الاعلام المركزي

١٥ يناير ٢٠٢٤

History and Background
Blood libel is an antisemitic canard that accuses Jewish people of ritual murder and blood sacrifice, specifically that we kill Christians to use their blood for various rituals. Many of the historic accusations of blood libel suggest that Jews use the blood of Christians to bake Passover matzah. Primarily, though, the accusations of blood libel sprang up when a Christian child (often a young boy) went missing or was killed in a town. The local Jewish community would be blamed, often by the actual perpetrators (if a crime had taken place at all), and Jews would be brutally tortured until a confession was given. Sometimes, the specifics of these accusations tied into deicide, another antisemitic trope blaming all Jews throughout all of time for the crucifixion of Jesus. Jews are frequently used as scapegoats for countless disasters throughout history, and the death of young children is no exception.

Though the first documented occurrence of blood libel dates back to 40 BCE, the examples we usually see originate from Europe in the Middle Ages, where it was an incredibly dangerous time and place to be Jewish. Blood libel was used alongside various other antisemitic canards to justify the mass-murder and expulsion of Jewish people, especially from Central and Western Europe, like modern-day England, France, and Germany (who is always at the scene of the crime).

In 1144, Jews in Norwich, England were accused of blood libel after a young boy named William was found to have been stabbed to death on Good Friday. A monk named Thomas of Monmouth wrote The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich about the murder of the boy and the alleged miracles occurring near his burial site. It’s his fabrication that solidified the rumors of blood libel stirring in Norwich. William was treated as a Christian martyr (someone killed for being Christian/professing love for Jesus) and even canonized as a saint. A cult began to form around him not long after that.

After several more instances of blood libel popped up in England in the following decades, the pogroms started. Jewish communities across the country were raided and their people massacred. A few decades after the death of Hugh of Lincoln, another young boy who was killed in 1255, England expelled its entire Jewish population in 1290 and they were not allowed to return until 1657, four hundred years later.

Another notable case of blood libel – perhaps the most famous – occurred after the death of a two-year-old boy in modern-day Italy, Simon of Trent. Simon was killed in 1475 and like a majority of other children used in blood libel accusations, was venerated as a saint. His cult spread throughout Europe and to this day, I’ve still seen him referenced by antisemitic Christians.

Blood libels have persisted throughout time since then, including being published in Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer. Though their more modern iterations haven’t really resulted in the mass-murder or expulsion of Jews, like all antisemitic tropes, they’re still extremely dangerous and we absolutely should take great lengths to avoid them.

Modern Applications
Now with the background on blood libel accusations of the past, we can see what they look like today. The most common example I can think of is the adrenochrome conspiracy theory, a popular one amongst the QAnon crowd. The adrenochrome conspiracy posits that “Hollywood elites” participate in child-trafficking rings to harvest their blood for adrenochrome, which would allegedly make them immortal somehow. Of course, the usage of “elites” makes it easier for the promoters of these antisemitic conspiracy theories to deny that they’re talking about Jews, but dogwhistles are very common with contemporary antisemitism (which we’ll discuss more in depth another time).

The trope has also “accidentally” been regurgitated by modern media plenty of times. I think this may sometimes be unintended, because of how antisemitic tropes have worked their way into acceptable public consciousness, but it’s still negligence on the part of the creators. A good example would be Inside Job on Netflix (see this article about why). Or perhaps Roald Dahl’s The Witches (but this one’s not really hard to put together considering Dahl was a raging antisemite). Disney’s Tangled suffers enormously from the Jewish-coding of Mother Gothel, in appearance and behavior and using her blonde-haired, stolen child’s powers to keep herself young. 

It can also sometimes be applied to vampire media in particular, and it’s definitely not uncommon for there to be a connection between vampire imagery and antisemitism, but that’s something I’ll cover another time. 

What Blood Libel is Not
Blood libel absolutely is a trope that still exists today in the media we consume, but that doesn’t mean the label of “blood libel” can be ascribed to something that doesn’t fit in with the libel itself. Today, Israel has leveled the accusation of blood libel against South Africa for describing the attacks on Gaza as “genocide” as South Africa attempts to hold Israel accountable at the International Court of Justice. The same accusations are regularly directed towards anyone else being vocally pro-Palestine.

Accusing supporters of Palestine of blood libel for pointing out that Israel is committing genocide is a blatant attempt to take legitimacy away from these statements. None of these discussions bring up ritual murder or consumption of blood, which are very key parts of categorizing a claim as blood libel. Zionists also pretend any “blood libel accusation” against Israel is the same as one being made against Jews in general; it’s not. Israel is a militaristic, apartheid state that commits atrocities in the name of the Jewish people, but it is not “us”.

Most importantly, the genocide of Palestinians is actually happening. There is an overwhelming amount of photo and video evidence documenting the atrocities being committed against Palestinians, along with testimonies from the people involved, including admissions from the perpetrators themselves.

Another consequence of unjustly accusing people of antisemitism is that antisemitism is taken less seriously, or legitimate accusations of antisemitism are met with denial or indifference. I would argue that this is intentional, because Israel relies heavily on the lack of safety of Jews in diaspora to legitimize itself.

By combatting antisemitism in all its forms worldwide, we make sure that Israel can no longer claim to be the only safe place in the world for us. We will thrive where we are, and education about antisemitism is imperative to that goal.

Sources
Passover and Blood Libels | My Jewish Learning
The Adrenochrome Conspiracy Theory—Pushed By ‘Sound Of Freedom’ Star—Explained (forbes.com)
Does Netflix’s ‘Inside Job’ encourage antisemitic conspiracy theorists? – The Forward
Israel-Hamas war: List of key events, day 85 | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Republished from the author’s blog, Doikayt Delivered.

This statement was released on October 7 by the PFLP.

This is the day when the nature of the struggle and the dignity of the Arab nation are reclaimed.

Steadfast mountains from the ranks of the resistance have united in response to the call of Palestine, the call of Al-Quds and Al-Aqsa, during which the essence of the conflict is reclaimed and the honor of the Arab nation is restored. They are determined to achieve a strategic victory over this enemy in a battle that will open the door to return and redefine the history of Palestine and the region.

The Popular Front urges our heroic people across Palestine to actively participate in the Al-Aqsa Flood battle. Everyone from their respective positions and with the tools they possess, should attack the enemy’s army and its settlers, cut off its supply routes, sabotage its vital facilities, and pursue the terrified Zionist invaders in the face of resistance strikes, striking at them on every inch of Palestinian soil.

The Front emphasizes its call for everyone who bears arms, especially members of the [PA] Security Forces, to engage in the battle of the Palestinian people against their enemy and to take the natural position of every free Palestinian fighting for salvation from occupation, achieving the goals and rights of all our people.

The timing of the battle, coinciding with the glorious October War, is a call for the sons of the Arab nation and the peoples of the region to recognize their position in the overall conflict with the Zionist enemy and in this particular battle. They should carry out their duties alongside their fighting brothers in revolt in occupied Palestine.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Central Media Office