“The use of Christian blood for Jewish Passover ceremonies is not at all an innovation,” says the writer of an instigatory article in Bandera Argentina, a German-financed fascist publication.
The article is written by one Isac Wertman (or Wortman) Bosch, who became a convert to Christianity to revenge his dismissal from the ICA (Jewish Colonization Association), of which organization he was an official many years ago.
Bosch’s article asserting the practice of the blood ritual is not the first despicable step he has taken against the Jews. Moreover, not content merely to broadcast his invectives, he makes it a point on each such occasion to telephone the officials of the ICA in order to taunt them with his latest “achievement.”
The article in question begins with the recent Jewish Telegraphic Agency report to the effect that the Jews of Bulgaria petitioned the synod there to obviate blood ritual propaganda. The degenerate writer in Bandera Argentina uses the report as “evidence” for his shameful assertion.
As further evidence he quotes the case of Mendel Beilis and speaks bitterly of the “Chesen people,” which he labels “universal parasite.”
QUOTES BEILIS CASE
“Without going into long and difficult investigations,” Bosch writes, “I should like to quote one more case. At the beginning of the century there occurred in the famous city of Kiev an instance of a ritual murder. At that time it was shown that the Jew Beilis had murdered a Christian child in order to use his blood for the ritual acts of Passover. The whole Christian world trembled with anger because of the horribleness of this sectarian anti-Christian passion.”
The writer then includes among his proofs the ten plagues of the Haggadah, and the story of Joseph in Egypt.
Jewish organizations here are considering taking legal action against the author of these charges and his editor. It is thought, however, that it would perhaps be advisable for Beilis to institute court proceedings against the two on his own behalf. Some understanding may possibly be reached with North American groups.
A brother of Mendel Beilis lives in this city.
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