An Israeli-Italian academic was accused of reviving European blood libels against Jews. Ariel Toaff, a professor at Bar Ilan University, argues in his book that medieval theories that Jews used Christian blood for religious rites may have been borne out of a rabbinical edict allowing the use of dried blood for medicinal purposes.
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