History’s oldest prejudice has proved astonishingly adaptable. It has survived kings, popes, and empires—and now enjoys observer status at the United Nations.

In twelfth-century Norwich, a young boy was found dead in the woods. No evidence pointed to the local Jews. None was needed. Truth was still knocking on the city gates while the accusation was already collecting believers. Jews had murdered a Christian child for ritual purposes. Facts eventually surfaced, but accountability never followed.

Today the mechanism hums with far greater efficiency, wearing blue badges instead of monastic robes. The United Nations has become the grand distributor of updated libels against the Jewish state, accusations that ignite diplomatic tempests, pressure governments, and isolate Israel while the true architects of suffering—jihadist strongholds embedded among civilians—operate with relative impunity. The pattern repeats with mechanical precision: sensational claim, global panic, quiet correction buried beneath the next headline. No sackcloth, no reckoning.

The oldest libel in history has simply received institutional branding.

Consider what happened during the Gaza war.

Tom Fletcher, the UN’s humanitarian chief, appeared on BBC Radio 4 and declared that 14,000 babies could die within forty-eight hours unless aid entered Gaza immediately. Fletcher never had to say, “Israel is murdering babies.” The headline-writing class kindly completed the sentence for him. Israel was supposedly standing between thousands of infants and certain death. Predictably, outrage erupted across capitals. Editorials were written. Demonstrators filled the........

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