re: #157 Alouette

What about Host torture? (a variation on the Blood Libel was that Jews would steal sanctified communion wafers and then perform unspeakable atrocities upon them)

OK you have me there sort of. It does sound so goofy to modern ears, that it invokes a smile. Then I think of all the other pogroms that came from it.

But you’ve made a point about anti-semitism that I think we can both agree on.

Pointing out the outrageous goofiness of it can be a very useful thing. Such a wonderful historical example of insanity can be used to shed light on the complete nonsense of the whole enterprise.