| THE LIE Jews murder a Christian child each year as a ritual Passover sacrifice |
| THE TRUTH Jews have never practiced ritual murder of any kind. |
| BACKGROUNDOn February 2, 2026, Candace Owens claimed that a Jewish organization called B’nai B’rith conducts annual “ritualistic killings” of Christian children for Passover.This allegation is part of a long-standing blood libel narrative Owens has repeatedly promoted. In earlier statements, she claimed that Jews—rebranded as a supposed “Frankist cult”—“still participate” in such ritual murder today.Owens bases these claims almost entirely on the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old Catholic girl in Georgia. She falsely asserts that Phagan was raped and ritually murdered by Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent affiliated with B’nai B’rith |
TRUTH EXPLAINED
- Mary Phagan was never alleged to have been raped by police, prosecutors, or contemporaneous investigators. That claim is a modern fabrication by Owens.
- Leo Frank was widely believed to be innocent, even at the time. There was no physical evidence tying him to the crime. The trial judge expressed doubts about the verdict, and Georgia Governor John M. Slaton commuted Frank’s death sentence after personally reviewing the case. The prosecution’s key witness, Jim Conley, is now widely regarded by historians as the actual murderer—an assessment shared by his own lawyer. (Dinnerstein, 2008), (Jewish Journal)
- Even Frank’s accusers did not claim the murder was ritualistic. That claim is another fabrication by Owens.
- Owens’s allegation is a blood libel, a false accusation that predates Christianity and has resurfaced repeatedly across history. Before Christianity, Jews were accused of ritually murdering Greek children. In medieval Europe, the charge morphed into claims that Jews killed Christian children to mock Jesus or use their blood for Passover matza. (JVL)
- Multiple popes explicitly rejected blood libels, including Innocent III (1198–1216), Innocent IV (1243–1254), and Gregory X (1271–1276), each affirming that claims of Jewish ritual murder were false and unsupported by evidence. (Jewish Virtual Library)
- After thousands of years of accusations, no physical evidence has ever been found to support them—no ritual objects, no liturgy, no religious texts, no archaeological remains. This stands in stark contrast to cultures like the Aztecs, where human sacrifice actually occurred and left extensive material evidence. (Live Science)
- For the blood libel to be true, millions of Jews across centuries and continents would have had to maintain perfect secrecy about ritual murder. This defies basic human behavior. People confess, defect, and expose secrets—especially horrific ones. No credible whistleblower has ever emerged.
- Instead, these accusations appear only when Jews are politically vulnerable, following periods of social stress rather than any demonstrable behavior. The charges disappear when conditions change and reappear elsewhere, recycled for new audiences.
- Jewish religious law explicitly forbids murder and the consumption of blood, even animal blood. Jewish texts are among the most thoroughly preserved and scrutinized bodies of religious literature in the world. If ritual murder were real, it would appear somewhere in that corpus. It does not. (Genesis 9:4), (Leviticus 17:10–12), (Leviticus 7:26–27), (Deuteronomy 12:23)
- The only so-called “confessions” connected to blood libel cases were extracted under torture. Even under torture, many falsely accused Jews refused to confess— the opposite of what would be expected if the practice were real. (Jewish Virtual Library)
- There is no evidence whatsoever that B’nai B’rith has ever killed anyone. B’nai B’rith was founded as a Jewish philanthropic and fraternal organization devoted to mutual aid and civic engagement, not violence
| QUOTES“Two thousand years ago another Governor washed his hands of a case and turned over a Jew to a mob. For two thousand years that Governor’s name has been accursed. If today another Jew were lying in his grave because I had failed to do my duty I would all through life find his blood on my hands and would consider myself an assassin through cowardice.” — Georgia Governor John M. Slaton about Leo Frank, 1915 |
| SourceThe claim that Jews ritually murder Christian children for Passover is one of the oldest, most thoroughly debunked lies in history, abandoned long ago by serious scholars. Owens offers no evidence, no documents, no victims, and no credible witnesses—only recycled accusations that have been used for centuries to justify persecution, mob violence, and murder. It is the deliberate revival of a lie so exhausted that its only remaining function is to inflame hatred where facts have failed. |
