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What is the libel of "Jewish deicide"?
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The libel of "Jewish deicide" is the claim that the Jewish people were responsible for the killing of Jesus, whom Christians regard as God become man. It was spuriously claimed that Jews stole hosts (objects to which they attached no significance, religious or otherwise), and further spuriously claimed that they abused these hosts to re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus by stabbing or burning them.