ANTISEMITIC INCITEMENT IS STILL ALIVE IN IRAN | ISGAP

On April 10, the Iranian hardliner website Mashregh News affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards published an article entitled “Who Are Human History’s Most Bloodthirsty People?” The article was later republished by other websites, including Alef, which is associated with Ahmad Tavakoli, a conservative member of Iranian Parliament (Majlis), former head of its research center, and a relative of Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani and the Head of the Judiciary Sadegh Amoli Larijani. The article, which included quotes and pictures from classic blood libels, accused Jews of killing non-Jews and using their blood for ritualistic purposes. It claimed that Israeli policy in the Palestinian territories was proof of the rapacious and savage nature of the Jewish people and cited antisemitic literature as further evidence of crimes allegedly committed by Jews throughout history.[1]