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Pamela S. Nadell

Dec 6, 2025, 11:33 AM

The blood libel never went away. In Washington, DC, it went viral.

At left, Hartmann Schedel's "Sacrifice of a Christian Child" (1493); at right, a Nov. 20, 2025 demonstration outside Union Station in Washington, D.C. showed U.S. and Israeli leaders eating and drinking the blood and organs of Palestinians in Gaza. (Beloit College; Instagram; JTA illustration by Grace Yagel)

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Pamela S. Nadell is the author of "Antisemitism, an American Tradition." She holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History and directs the Jewish Studies Program at American University.