Israel's ambassador to the United Nations has called out the world body for allowing blood libel within its ranks.
Reuters reported Ambassador Danny Danon addressed the issue in a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Danon demanded a condemnation from the U.N. on claims made by Riyad Mansour, the chief Palestinian delegate.
"This blood libel by the Palestinian representative exposes his anti-Semitic motives and his true colors," Danon said in the letter.
The Jewish "blood libel" is an old anti-Semitic trope that claims Jews drink Christian and Muslim blood.
"Anti-Semitism has no place in the halls of the United Nations and must be denounced," Danon said. "I call on you to repudiate this sinister accusation and to condemn the ongoing incitement by Palestinian leaders."
Mansour's claims came in a letter this month to British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, head of the Security Council.
He claimed Israelis harvested body parts of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.
Mansour's letter said, Reuters reported, "After returning the seized bodies of Palestinians killed by the occupying forces through October, and following medical examinations, it has been reported that the bodies were returned with missing corneas and other organs."
Mansour claimed the report confirmed "past reports about organ harvesting."
Such blood libels have been commonly used to attack Israel over the years.
WND reported earlier this year when Laurie Cardoza-Moore, founder and president of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, went to the Vatican to try to convince the Catholic Church to dust off the long-forgotten Nostra Aetate document and proclaim its truths with renewed vigor.
The document, signed by Pope Paul VI in 1965, states that the Catholic church not only acknowledged that the Jews were not responsible for the death of Jesus, it also recognized that the Jewish covenant with God for the land of Israel had not been broken, and it stated that Christianity sprang from Jewish roots.
A competing document, the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," is a proven hoax that was put out by anonymous Jew haters in 1903, she said.
It has been used over and over to attack Jews.
"Protocols"Â claimed that Jews harbored an ancient secret plan to take over the world and were the source of all the world's problems. Henry Ford funded the printing of 500,000 copies in the United States in the 1920s and Hitler had the book taught as fact in German schools in the 1930s. Today, the book is used in the schools of many Muslim countries and is widely available on the Internet.
The ripples from its teaching continue.
For example, a Common Core lesson plan required eighth-grade students in a California school district last year to question whether the Holocaust actually happened.
The eight-page assignment asked students to weigh arguments on whether the Holocaust was an "actual event" or a "propaganda tool that was used for monetary gain." It was justified as an exercise in "critical thinking."
Meanwhile, Turkey is rewriting its school textbooks with regard to the Armenian genocide, denying that it ever occurred. And Palestinian school children are taught geography with maps that do not include the state of Israel.
Watch clip below of a sermon broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV in which Jews are called "apes" and "pigs" bent on harming Muslims.
Two years ago, the Egyptian newspaper Misrelgdida published multiple features promoting the Jewish "blood libel."
The first article gave a "history" of Passover blood rituals that allegedly continue.
The writer said Christian neighbors of Jews were scared of the holiday because they were worried about abduction and ritual slaughtering for their blood. He claimed that Jews would hunt for Christian babies who never tasted wine and stab them to death in a ceremony in the synagogue, after which they would distribute the blood to drink four cups of "wine" during the Passover seder, while singing and dancing with their families.
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