Poland: Jewish leader accuses Catholics of perpetuating local blood libel

The leader of a Jewish community in Poland accused Catholic clergymen of perpetuating a local blood libel. 

Alicja Kobus, chairwoman of the Jewish community in Poznan, made the accusation on Jan. 26 in an interview with the Gazeta Wyborcza daily about a fresco that depicts an anti-Semitic blood libel and adorns the western city’s Sacred Blood of Christ cathedral.

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