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Duke University Press enables blood libel at Princeton
Amy Rosenthal
August 11, 2023

Do Jews maim innocents to control them and reap economic rewards? Do they target the vital organs of their victims? Do they starve children? This is what Jasbir Puar’s 2017 book, Right to Maim, published by Duke University Press (DUP), claims. These hateful lies about Jews constitute a modern blood libel, a term that has its origins in the Medieval Christendom myth that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in Jewish rituals. The lie sparked pogroms—i.e., attacks and murder of Jews. The resurrection of professor Puar’s modern blood libel in a 2023 Ivy League humanities course at Princeton University has the Jewish community up in arms. It is the culmination of efforts by Duke University Press to disseminate anti-Israel propaganda…READ MORE