Embraced majic and helinism, anything is possible, however they would no longer be practicing Jewish religion. Additionally, fallen uneductaed Jews are responsible for the Chirstian movement which has seen its share of barbarianism. Psyco killers that act out rituals of bread and wine with real blood and body claiming to be Jesus, is not representaive of the religion. Then you can also look at the Muslims who lay their religion on the foundation of Moses. Exploding human bombs is also not "part" of Moses' techings. Clearly deviation from a religion cannot fault the religion, however their is only one simple reading and no major religion is following that. One God one love

Like Jimmy Carter, Toaff will find that peddling libel about the Children of Israel will debase him and not Israel.

for the Romans crucifing Jesus.

i'm fed up to see number of traitors that we have in our people:tali fahima,olmerde,the leftists who riots in bilin every friday,and now the latest,ariel toaff...and this traitor tech in bar ilan? i hope he will be fired from hid job.

for ages now, many nations trump up such libels but the Jewish Community is still here. There are many names and xtian churches who directly accused the Jews. In 1928 at upper New York in a small settlement , Massena , one Albert Commas and immgrant from Salonika,i think Greece, started the blood libel. On that account on the same date Mayor Hawes and one Mickery Mc Cann joined the Ku Klux Klan to distroy the good name of my people. Our Rabbi Berel Brennglass who headed the Jewish Community of Massena was question after an unlawful arrest.Well the Jews of New York are still there today. The AntiSemitism failed. In fact the blood libel originated during the reign of the Helenistic king Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who ruled Syria from 175 to 163 BCE-which ended the Temple of Jerusalem in 168. During the middle ages the xtians started many blood libels over my people.Even the English communities replicated the charge against the Jew. Name like Bury St. Edmunds, Bristol and Winchester is related English names.The Jesuit are not to be forgotten, the periodical "Civilta Cattolica" printed numerous articles purporting to prove that Jews in fulfillment of Talmudic laws, murdered xtian children to obtain blood for religious purposes. This is ALSO a BLOOD LIBEL which the Vatican CANNOT DENY. As such we jews stood clean in those ages and we will stand alone today with Hashem,for Hashem know me and my children Yisrael. So I testify here, carry on with the BLOOD LIBEL, who ever want to accuse us, we will prevail this libel or any other kind of libels now and in the future. :) bentham Singapore :)

The guy is making money.

This is further evidence, as Jews give false ammunition to those seeking our destruction. This man's name should be blotted out.

To what depths someone will sink in order to get money and publicity never stop to amaze me Herem please !

Spoke to a representative of the university who said many, many people have called against this ridiculous book! The author isn't in Israel at the moment but the university will deal with him when he returns!

This imbecile wrote a book entitled PASSOVERS OF BLOOD, with a cover showing a horrific Medieval engraving of a Jew about to cut a baby, made claims to the media about how scholarly and accurate his "discovery" is, and then just did a full-page interview in our leading newspaper about his "pain" that his father and the rest of the community refused to endorse his libellous garbage or even see him. No Jew in Rome will deal with him, and he remains holed up in hotel room, shunned by all decent Jews and gentiles alike. The only Jew in Italy he got to write positively about this insanity is a left-wing professor In the North whose field is modern political history and the French Revolution. He cannot find one expert on Medieval history to support this unscholarly vomit. In Toaff's interview, he says that this work took over SEVEN YEARS, and he even had his students at Bar-Ilan University in Israel working for him. Is this what students pay for to be educated in Eretz Yisrael? This prompts 2 other questions: in seven years, it NEVER occurred to this so-called scholar that this insane claim would be "possibly exploited" by Jew-haters? Also, what kind of mentality would dedicate 7 years of one's life to develop a 364 page volume on reviving the blood libel? This man was certainly, in my opinion, ONLY thinking about the 30 pieces of silver he would receive, the profits from sales of this despicable calumny that he would get from the Arabic-language editions of this book, plus sales to gleeful anti-Semites everywhere, thrilled to see a Jew, and a rabbi at that, finally "admit" that Jews are cannibals, bloodsuckers and killers of gentile babies. I thoroughly endorse any cherem that will demonstrate clearly to the world that this opportunistic cultural bloodsucker will never be considered a Jew again. He is absolutely already persona non grata here in Rome.

Who cares who did what to whom that far back? I'm just waiting for somebody to write a book and suggest that the Aztecs, who had the cute habit of ripping the hearts out of living prisoners in honor of their god of war, Huitzlipochtli, must have been Jews.

The author of this historical novel is at best a fool. To paraphrase what Rabbi Berel Wein used to say: you can find a 'Jewish' historian who will say anything. In the current internet-driven media climate, such theorizing can only lead to misinterpretation at best and horrific anti-Jewish fervor and actions at worst.

People, who are "eat up" with anti-Semitism, don't need a good excuse. Kippot instead of baseball caps will do.

Reality Check , World

The job of a historian is NOT to be misunderstood.

Hard to believe that someone involved in history on the academic level could be stupid enough to print this trash. Jews could not be involved in ritual murder - period - because there is no such ritual in Judaism. And "revenge murder" (if it occured) is not "ritual murder". The statement itself exposes complete ignorance.

He's going to find that Iranian professorships do not pay nearly as well as Israeli ones. Even though, the Mel Gibson Chair at Tehran University comes with a free action-movie rental every week.

Irgun , the Jewish terrorists group killed alot of English and Arab people , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun what's new ??

Hello, I just read an online news article in Ynet news regarding a publication authored by your Professor Ariel Toaff. I understand that Toaff’s book, Pasque di Sangue, allows for the possibility of certain Ashkenazi Jews consuming the blood of Christian children during Jewish rituals in Medieval Europe. As a non-Jew, I must register my utmost shock and disbelief that anyone, much less an academic, would voice such an oafish opinion without some new compelling source documentation. This crime is even more loathsome in light of the harm such beliefs have done to the Jewish people throughout history. Needless to say, this publicized dribble by one of your own should fuel the fire of anti-Semitism for many years to come and, conceivably, even contribute to further blood libels. Edwin Ritchie Calgary, AB email addresses: esinger@mail.biu.ac.il barilan@mail.biu.ac.il spokesman.office@mail.biu.ac.il

Hilter was Jewish, or so he thought, nobody is a worse hater of anything than the person who is trying with all his her might not to be what is hated but what he she truly is, so whether that person, a former drug alcohol abuser, sexually a homosexual or just out of control, or the most hated of people the Jews, he, she will hate what is within them and try to destroy it, internally and externally, for example the TV Christian ministers who are as sexually perverse as the people they preach against, my ex-wife a former Israeli from Givat Haim Meuchad and an apostate just bought kaffiyehs for our children. Nobody is as hateful as a former anything. The first Christians, did anyone make the distinctions clearer, Caspar Weinberger did anyone hate Israelis more, Henry Kissinger ("let them squirm") he alone is responsible for thousands of Israeli dead during the Yom Kippur War, Vanunu. Etc, Etc.

You're right, I guess the cat's out of the bag now. It's time for us Jooz to finally 'fess up. I admit it, we slaughter Christian children every year before Passover to bake our matzos. In our spare time, we like to poison wells, and use our evil genius to invent deadly diseases like AIDS. And yes, we secretly carried out the 9/11 attacks, and then blamed it on that schlemazel, Bin Laden. I'd write more, but I'm late for my weekly chapter meeting of the Global Jewish Conspiracy to Control the World, and I'm supposed to bring the fruit salad. Bwahahahaha!

Better historians like Prof. Diego Quaglioni of Italy have spent many many years researching those archives and processual accounts and there is no doubt whatsoever that they were fabricated by the then bishop of Trent! It's history!

does anybody believe that garbage?

because what you said isn't true

Every time an idiot throws a stone the media gives him the publicity that he intended to get.