Blood Libel
Critics see the propagation of these purported rumours as a form of Blood libel, or accusing one's enemy of eating children, and accuse countries of using this as a political lever.
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Famous quotes containing the words blood and/or libel:
“Datta: what have we given?
My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment’s surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)