(JTA) — A well-known painter in Italy unveiled on Facebook an oil painting depicting an anti-Semitic blood libel. Giovanni Gasparro uploaded “the Martyrdom of St. Simon of Trento for Jewish ...

The fresco, which was painted by the 17th-century Franciscan monk Adam Swach, depicts a local blood libel that said Jews ... in Sandomierz displayed a painting of Jews killing Christian children ...

Yes, the blood libel persists. Today ... The motive is clear: to delegitimize the Jewish connection to their homeland, to paint them as interlopers rather than indigenous inhabitants.

A painting on wood, known as a rood screen ... Monmouth's book is the first recorded instance of the so-called Blood Libel - the claim that Jews killed Christian children - which resurfaced ...