The Reality of Jewish Ritual Murder

by Voltaire - July 19, 2007

Jews deny that they have a ritual where they ritually exsanguinate murdered gentile children to acquire blood to mix with Matzo bread. Unfortunately, the facts belie them. Leaving aside the confessions of numerous converted rabbis testifying to the reality of the practice, there are numerous documented cases from both antiquity and more recent times which stand the test of the facts quite solidly.

We will discuss three such examples:

(1) The Saint Simon of Trent case of the Middle Ages;

(2) The Father Tomaso Damascus case of 1840;

(3) The Schuessler and Grimes murders in Chicago in 1955.

The famous Saint Simon case led to the canonization of the murdered boy. Briefly, Simon was enticed by a Jewish doctor into his house with candy. There he was murdered and his body drained of blood. The body was later discovered in a river but there was no evidence of drowning. All parts of the boys body were punctured with multiple wounds and the corpse was completely drained of blood. The doctor was arrested, tortured and confessed to the crime. The instruments used to murder Simon were found at the doctors home and corroborated the confession in every detail. The doctor was condemned. The Jews of the town screamed for a new trial. Because of their wealth and influence the verdict was appealed not once, but twice. In both cases the verdict was upheld. Finally, years later, an investigator, Cardinal Ganganelli, was appointed by the presiding Pope to look into the ritual murder allegation. One of the cases to be re-opened was the Saint Simon of Trent case. Ganganelli approached his task with a distinct bias of disbelief in the ritual murder accusation. However, when writing his report, he had to admit that Saint Simon of Trent had, in fact, been the victim of a Jewish ritual murder. This case was the subject of Professor Ariel Toaff's book Pasque di Sangue, which affirmed the truth of the ritual murder charge and which was pulped and withdrawn from the market based on pressure from the Anti-Defamation League.

The Father Tomaso case of 1840 was one of the biggest criminal cases of the 19th century. A Catholic priest, Father Tomaso, went into the Old City Jewish quarter of Jerusalem to do shopping. While there he was kidnapped by several Jews and, under the direction of the chief Rabbi, his throat and that of his man servant were cut to obtain the ritual blood. The Jews were later apprehended and tortured individually without having the opportunity to coordinate their stories. They were all asked the same questions by the Turkish authorities and gave substantially the same answers. The remains of Father Tomaso and his servant were found in the sewer where all the Jews testified they had dumped them. All gave the same details of the blood rite and its requirements. The questions and their answers were written down by the Turkish authorities and have been preserved for posterity.

The Jews immediately took action to reverse the findings. Although all the European consuls present in Damascus affirmed the guilt of the Jews the Rothschilds in continental Europe and the Montefiores in England mounted a massive campaign to pressure their respective governments. Loan obligations were pressed on the French and Austrian governments. A gigantic press campaign on behalf of the condemned Jews was launched. A huge bribe was offered to Mehmet Ali in Egypt to reverse the findings but merely succeeded in commuting the sentences, not reversing the verdict of ritual murder. All the strings were pulled. Years later, the British Consul in Damascus, Sir Richard Burton, published an investigation into the matter titled The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam. The book was published without an appendix which Burton had written on the Father Tomaso case. When Burton passed a group of Jews associated with the Board of Deputies of British Jewry acquired an assignment of the rights to the manuscript from Burton's widow and have prevented its publication ever since. They will not say what the document contains. Although a very few Jewish scholars have been allowed access to the appendix, they too, have maintained the oath of silence.

The Schluesser and Grimes cases in Chicago in 1955 were the most recent well documented cases of Jewish ritual murder. In 1955 five corpses of several boys and girls were found murdered and unburied in Chicago. The bodies had all been completely drained of blood. They all had multiple puncture wounds and, on one of the boys, the wounds resembled those inflicted on Christ on the cross. The Chicago Sun, a major newspaper of the day, rushed into print a story suggesting that the murders bore the signs of a murder cult. At the pressure of Chicago Jewry the edition of the Sun was pulled off the news stands within ten minutes of hitting the streets. A few copies were, however, obtained by the patriotic Mrs. Lyrl Clark Van Hyning, who sent one to Mr. Schuessler, with the suggestion that his sons had been the victims of a Jewish ritual murder. Mr. Schuessler then made a fatal mistake. He asked the Jewish Sheriff of Cook County, Joseph Lohman, whether his boys had been ritually murdered. Lohman immediately place Mr. Schuessler under house arrest by two Jewish deputies. He was given polygraph and psychological tests which he passed with flying colors. Mr. Schuessler was then flown to Des Moines, Iowa for treatment by a Jewish psychiatrist. On the same day he arrived Mr. Schuessler, a specimen of perfect health, died of a "heart attack". The Jewish psychiatrist, a most unsavory character who had helped Jewish youth in World War Two evade the draft by inducing fake heart flutters and other ailments, took a vacation to Switzerland where he wound up mysteriously hanged in his hotel room. Prior to the good doctor's departure the Coroner of Cook County, a crusty old Irishman, had charged that the shrink had deliberately murdered Mr. Schuessler. The Coroner was warned by the District Attorney to shut up and a few days later, a small bomb blew off the front door of the Coroners house. He had nothing to say thereafter.

Mrs. Van Hining had, throughout the course of the case, been sending newspaper and other clippings to the noted British fascist and ritual murder investigator, Arnold Leese, in London. Mr. Leese was thereupon to die a very mysterious death in his flat and all the research materials Mrs. Van Hyning had been shipping him disappeared, never to be seen again. Finally, in a vey fitting conclusion to the case, Mrs. Schuessler, the mother of the murdered boys, was presented by the journalist, Irv Kupcinet, with a "donation" by the Chicago Jewish community of $100,00 which, multiplied by thirty to fifty times, would be $3-5,000,000 in today's money.

There were other suspicious circumstances. The Irish officers who investigated the case openly charged that evidence was being suppressed. One of the murdered boys had severe strangulation marks with deep fingernail cuts in his neck, suggesting the participation of a Jewess in the crime. There were other forensic signs of the use of an expensive automobile to transport the boys at some point before or after the commission of the crime, probably a Hewitt or some other luxury brand such as a rich Jew might possess. The murders were officially never solved.

As the reader will perceive documented evidence exists from both ancient times to present that Jewish ritual murder is a bloody reality. How widespread the practice is, nobody knows. But the extreme persistence of the charge against them, the continuity of the practice over the centuries and the immense cover up and outright murder to which they have resorted to combat the charge suggests a very ugly conclusion.