Yesterday, I wrote of the latest blood libel to be published against Jews. Some might argue that such propaganda is so transparent that no one in their right mind would believe the stuff. Well, that's because the target audience aren't adults, but rather children.
It's designed to turn Jews into bogeymen - making them appear evil and demented. The use of blood libels isn't so much to convince adults that Jews are busy turning children's blood into matzos or hamentashen so much as to indoctrinate a new generation of children into believing that Jews are evil and that Jews do such acts as part of their rituals. It's indoctrinating evil among those who are least capable of figuring out just how outlandish such claims are in the first place. Children are impressionable, which is why concepts like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and other fairy tales are successful at providing parables of good and evil. The hatemongers use this to their advantage, spreading a message of hate.
Indoctrinating children in hatred and evil is a staple of Palestinian media outlets for years, and the blood libel goes hand in hand with such evil. They'll coopt cartoon characters to spread the message of hate and violence against Jews.
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