British school to change logo referencing anti-Semitic blood libel

[Behind the Aegis]

A boarding school in Britain said it will modify its logo following complaints that it references an anti-Semitic blood libel.

Jeremy Wyld, headmaster of St. Hugh’s School in Woodhall Spa, situated some 130 miles north of London, told The Jewish Chronicle that a red dot hanging over a brick wall in the logo would be removed, the paper reported Thursday.

According to the paper, the logo represents a ball flying over a wall in a reference to the story of “Little Saint Hugh.” A 13th-century myth has the boy murdered by a Jewish family after he loses his ball over their wall and is invited to retrieve it.

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[Generic Other]

1. They should change the name of the school as well

Name it after Hadrian if they want a wall so badly.

Shameful.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. The actual Saint Hugh was a different person

"Little Saint Hugh" is not an official saint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_of_Lincoln
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Saint_Hugh_of_Lincoln

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Blood Libel: A False, Incendiary Claim Against Jews

The “blood libel” refers to a centuries-old false allegation that Jews murder Christians – especially Christian children – to use their blood for ritual purposes, such as an ingredient in the baking of Passover matzah (unleavened bread). It is also sometimes called the “ritual murder charge.” The blood libel dates back to the Middle Ages and has persisted despite Jewish denials and official repudiations by the Catholic Church and many secular authorities. Blood libels have frequently led to mob violence and pogroms, and have occasionally led to the decimation of entire Jewish communities.

The blood libel is particularly appalling in light of the fact that Jews follow the Hebrew Bible’s law to not consume any blood, which is found in the book of Leviticus. In order for an animal to be considered kosher, all its blood must have been drained and discarded.

The first ritual muder charge took place in Norwich, England, in the twelfth century. A boy named William was found dead in the woods outside of town, and a monk, Thomas of Monmouth, accused local Jews of torturing him and murdering him in mockery of the crucifixion of Jesus. Although many townspeople did not believe this claim, a cult venerating the boy eventually sprang up. At this time the myth began to circulate that each year, Jewish leaders around the world met to choose a country and a town from which a Christian would be apprehended and murdered.

The blood libel spread throughout the Christian world in the Middle Ages. When a Christian child went missing, it was not uncommon for local Jews to be blamed. Even when there was no evidence that any Jew had anything to do with the missing child, Jews were tortured until they confessed to heinous crimes. Some Christians believed that the four cups of wine that Jews drink at the Passover Seder celebrations were actually blood, or that Jews mixed blood into hamantaschen, sweet pastries eaten on the Jewish holiday of Purim. Others claimed that Jews used Christian blood as a medicine or even as an aphrodisiac. Scholars have documented about 100 blood libels that took place from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. Many of them resulted in massacres of Jews.

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[Generic Other]

4. Bloody Hell

British history is full of so many egregious acts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion

[Generic Other]

5. More details of this story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Hugh

[Generic Other]

6. Versions of the Child Ballad #155

https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch155.htm

The song has been re-purposed through time as I recognize the lyrics from other murder ballads, but this one clearly contains the storyline you mentioned, Aegis.