It is a phrase you hear often from Israel’s official spokesmen notably Gilad Erdan [Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations] and Eylon Aslan-Levy [an official Israeli government spokesman] during the current conflict. It is more often linked with charges of Anti-semitism than not.
The danger is when you use these precise terms to respond to any difficult query by a person, organization, court, or country as a matter of rote, they become meaningless and mere background noise. Eventually, they become mere punctuation marks like the f-word or c-word in some places [e.g. London UK]. Using “F-word” rather than the word itself. has more weight.
Anti-semitism and blood libel charges are serious and all too real and I want them to remain exactly that, serious, and not some rhetorical device.
Blood Libel was used to justify pogroms and the holocaust in Europe not so long ago. In essence, blood libel was used to justify anti-semitism.
From the encyclopedia Brittanica
blood libel, the superstitious accusation that Jews ritually sacrifice Christian children at Passover to obtain blood for unleavened bread. It first emerged in medieval Europe in the 12th century and was revived sporadically in eastern and central Europe throughout the medieval and modern periods, often leading to the persecution of Jews.
That is the origin, the accusation remained virtually the same with some modern variations. Link to a book: From Cannibalism to Political Murder: Modern Permutations of the Blood Libel by Elissa Bemporad.
This is why Israel’s snuggling up with our most lunatic evangelicals is almost laughable but mainly tragic.
To cut it short, to enable the rapture, all the Jewish diaspora must go home to Israel [Jerusalem] and …..
You get the idea. That is the fundamentalist's greatest wish, the end of times [but many would add preferably not during my actual lifetime [but not yet]]
One of the truly great mindless poorly quoted myths is “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”, ha.
I would say well over 99% of the accusations of a comment being “blood libel” are at best erroneous at worst flippant.