A Saudi government-run newspaper claimed that Jews use human blood to fill hamentashen. The March 10 article in the Al-Riyadh newspaper detailed how the blood is allegedly obtained — either by draining it using a needle or slaughtering the victim “as a sheep is slaughtered.”
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