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The Damascus affair was an accusation of ritual murder and a blood libel against Jews in Damascus in 1840. Ritual murder is murder performed in a ritualistic fashion or on a basis of rituals. ... Blood libels are false accusations that Jews use human blood in certain of their religious rituals. ... For other uses, see Damascus (disambiguation). ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The incident and arrests

On February 5, 1840, Franciscan Capuchin friar Father Thomas and his Greek servant were reported missing, never to be seen again. The Turkish governor and the French consul Ratti-Menton believed accusations of ritual murder and blood libel, as the alleged murder occurred before the Jewish Passover. An investigation was staged, and Solomon Negrin, a Jewish barber, confessed under torture and accused other Jews. Two other Jews died under torture, and one (Moses Abulafia) converted to Islam to escape torture. More arrests and atrocities followed, culminating in 63 Jewish children being held hostage and mob attacks on Jewish communities throughout the Middle East. is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Order of Friars Minor and other Franciscan movements are disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi. ... The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (OFM Cap) is an order of friars in the Roman Catholic Church, the chief and only permanent offshoot of the Franciscans. ... Pasch redirects here. ... A forced confession is a confession obtained by a suspect or a prisoner under means of torture of some kind, or duress. ... For people named Islam, see Islam (name). ... For other uses, see Hostage (disambiguation). ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...

The Christian funeral procession for Father Thomas (without his body) through the streets of Damascus was widely attended. A tombstone was inscribed "... assassinated by the Jews the 5th of February of the year 1840." The Arabic translation of the tombstone still stands at the Franciscan church in Damascus.

Protests and negotiations

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The affair drew wide international attention in particular due to the efforts of the Austrian Consul in Aleppo Eliahu Picotto who made representations to Ibrahim Pasha in Egypt who ordered an investigation. In a groundbreaking effort, 15,000 American Jews protested in six American cities on behalf of their Syrian brethren. The United States consul in Egypt expressed an official protest by the order of President Martin Van Buren. Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, backed by influential westerns including Britain's Lord Palmerston, the French lawyer Adolphe Crémieux, Austrian consul Merlatto, missionary John Nicolayson, and Solomon Munk, led a delegation to the ruler of Syria, Mehemet Ali. Image File history File links Wikisource-logo. ... The original Wikisource logo. ... Ibrahim Pasha (Arabic: ابراهيم باشا) ‎ (1789 – 10 November 1848), a 19th century general of Egypt. ... Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862), nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. ... Sir Moses Montefiore (October 24, 1784-July 28, 1885) was one of the most famous British Jews in the 19th century. ... Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. ... Isaac Moïse Crémieux [known as Adolphe] (April 30, 1796 - February 10, 1880), was a French statesman. ... See Mehemet Ali (Turkey) for the Turkish foreign minister and regent. ...

Negotiations in Alexandria continued from August 4 to August 28 and secured the unconditional release and recognition of innocence of the nine prisoners still remaining alive (out of thirteen). Later in Constantinople, Montefiore persuaded Sultan Abdülmecid to issue a firman (edict) intended to halt the spread of blood libel accusations in the Ottoman Empire: This article is about the city in Egypt. ... is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the city before the Fall of Constantinople (1453). ... Abdülmecid I (Ottoman Turkish: عبد المجيد اول ‘Abdü’l-MecÄ«d-i evvel) (April 23, 1823 – June 25, 1861) was the 31st sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on July 2, 1839. ... Firman refers to a royal mandate or decree issued from a sovereign in Western Asian countries such as Iran under the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi or the Ottoman rulers. ... “Ottoman” redirects here. ...

"... and for the love we bear to our subjects, we cannot permit the Jewish nation, whose innocence for the crime alleged against them is evident, to be worried and tormented as a consequence of accusations which have not the least foundation in truth...".

Aftermath

Pogroms spread through the Middle East and North Africa: Aleppo (1850, 1875), Damascus (1840, 1848, 1890), Beirut (1862, 1874), Dayr al-Qamar (1847), Jerusalem (1847), Cairo (1844, 1890, 1901-02), Mansura (1877), Alexandria (1870, 1882, 1901-07), Port Said (1903, 1908), Damanhur (1871, 1873, 1877, 1891), Istanbul (1870, 1874), Buyukdere (1864), Kuzguncuk (1866), Eyub (1868), Edirne (1872), Izmir (1872, 1874) - these are just key cases.^[1]

Influence

According to Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes in Copenhagen Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is a American historian and counter-terrorism analyst who specializes in the Middle East. ...

...the real impact of the Damascus affair ... lay in Europe, where it led to a formidable backlash against Jews, the greatest in years. Jews found themselves completely unprepared for the tribulations they suffered but learned from this tragedy to organize and lobby, and from that came the first stirrings of modern Jewish solidarity, the basis of the formidable institutions that followed.^[2]

The events encouraged the growth of the modern Jewish press:

As a result, a sense of solidarity was evoked among the Jewish communities of Europe they had never experienced before. Thus, the Damascus Affair gave birth to modern Jewish press especially in Western Europe, such as to the long-lived papers Les Archives Israélites de France (1840-1935) in Paris or The Jewish Chronicle (1841 ff.) in London.^[3] Founded in 1841, The Jewish Chronicle (affectionately known as The JC) is the United Kingdoms national Jewish newspaper. ...

The Damascus affair prompted French Jews to establish the Alliance Israélite Universelle in 1860. Alliance Israelite Universelle is an international Jewish organization of French Jews based in France. ...

Modern time

Mahmoud Al-Said Al-Kurdi wrote two articles in Egyptian daily Al Akhbar repeating accusations of the affair. The first article appeared on October 20, 2000. The second, titled The Last Scene in the Life of Father Toma appeared in the March 25, 2001 issue. ^[4]

In 2002 it was reported that the 1840 accusations re-emerged in a recent book "The Matzah of Zion" by a Syrian official, The Damascus Blood Libel (1840) as Told by Syria's Minister of Defense, Mustafa Tlass^[5]. In the introduction to the book he writes, "My intention in publishing this book is to bring to light some of the secrets of the Jewish sect... the hateful fanaticism and their implementation of the teachings of the Talmud." The book has become a best seller in the Arab world. Lt. ...

In his interview aired on TeleLiban TV on January 30, 2007, Lebanese poet Marwan Chamoun alleged "... slaughter of the priest Tomaso de Camangiano ... in 1840... in the presence of two rabbis in the heart of Damascus, in the home of a close friend of this priest, Daud Al-Harari, the head of the Jewish community of Damascus. After he was slaughtered, his blood was collected, and the two rabbis took it." ^[6]

Fiction

A fictional gay retelling of the Damascus Affair by the Israeli novelist Alon Hilu, emphasizing the contribution of Jews themselves to the false accusations, and claiming that Father Thomas died from a heart attack during intercourse with a Jewish young man, was published recently in Hebrew and English under the title Death of a Monk. GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... Alon (Hebrew אלון חילו) (born Jaffa, Israel, June 21, 1972), is an Israeli novelist. ... “Hebrew” redirects here. ... Death of a Monk, the Book Cover Death of a Monk is a novel by Alon Hilu, an Israeli writer, published in 2004. ...

References

See also

• Syrian Jews
• History of the Jews under Muslim rule
• Antisemitism and History of antisemitism
• Islam and antisemitism

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Further reading

• Frankel, Jonathan: The Damascus Affair: 'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840 (Cambridge University Press, 1997) ISBN 0-521-48396-4 (Review)
• Florence, Ronald: Blood Libel. The Damascus Affair of 1840 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004) ISBN 0-299-20280-1 (Review)
• Damascus affair article by Gotthard Deutsch and M. Franco in the Jewish Encyclopedia (1911 ed.)
• The Infamous Damascus Affair (jewishgates.com)