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For the logical fallacy, see poisoning the well.

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Well-poisoning is the act of malicious manipulation of potable water resources in order to cause illness or death, or to deny an opponent access to fresh water resources. Historically it was one of the gravest of three accusations brought against Jewish people as a whole (the other two being host desecration and blood libel). Drinking water Mineral Water Drinking water is water that is intended to be ingested by humans. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... Host desecration is a form of sacrilege in Christianity, involving the mistreatment or malicious use of a consecrated Host, or communion wafer. ... Blood libels are unfounded allegations that a particular group eats people as a form of human sacrifice, often accompanied by the claim of using the blood of their victims in various rituals. ...

In warfare

Well poisoning has been used as an important scorched earth tactic. During the Winter War the Finns rendered wells unusable by planting animal carcasses or feces in them in order to passively combat Soviet forces ^[1]. During the 20th century the practice has lost most of its potency against an organized force as modern military logistics ensure secure and un-contaminated supplies. A scorched earth policy is a military tactic which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an area. ... Combatants Finland Soviet Union Commanders Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Kliment Voroshilov, later Semyon Timoshenko Strength 250,000 men 30 tanks 130 aircraft[1][2] 1,000,000 men 3,000 tanks 3,800 aircraft[3][4] Casualties 26,662 dead 39,886 wounded 1,000 captured[5] 126,875 dead... The Indirect approach was a strategy developed by Basil Liddell Hart after World War I. His strategy called for armies to advance along the line of least expectation against the least resistance. ... Military logistics is the art and science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of military forces. ...

Accusations of well-poisoning against Jews

The existence of viruses and bacteria was unknown in medieval times, and the eruption of epidemics could not be explained. Any sudden deterioration of health was blamed on poisoning. Europe was hit by several waves of Black Death (often identified as bubonic plague) throughout the late Middle Ages. Crowded cities were especially hard hit by the disease, with death tolls as high as 50% of the population. In their distress, emotionally distraught survivors searched for something, or someone, to blame. Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411) The Black Death, or Black Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. ... Bubonic plague is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease plague, which is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis. ...

The city-dwelling Jews of the Middle Ages, forced to live in walled-up, segregated ghetto districts, proved to be convenient scapegoats. As mortality was significantly lower among the Jews, medieval Christians in Europe theorized that the Jews, who had their own wells in the ghetto, had poisoned the city wells in order to kill Christians, just as they had killed Christ. An outbreak of plague thus became the trigger for pogroms, with hundreds of Jews burned at the stake, or rounded up in synagogues and private houses that were then set aflame. A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background live as a group in seclusion, voluntarily or involuntarily. ... The Scapegoat by William Holman Hunt, 1854. ...

With the decline of plague in Europe, these accusations lessened, but the term "well-poisoning" remains a loaded one that continues to crop up even today among anti-Semites around world.

Contemporary accusations

Walter Laqueur writes in his book The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day: Walter Laqueur (born 1921) is an American historian and political commentator. ...

There were no mass attacks against "Jewish poisoners" after the period of the Black Death, but the accusation became part and parcel of antisemitic dogma and language. It appeared again in early 1953 in the form of the "doctors' plot" in Stalin's last days, when hundreds of Jewish physicians in the Soviet Union were arrested and some of them killed on the charge of having caused the death of prominent Communist leaders... Similar charges were made in the 1980s and 1990s in radical Arab nationalist and Muslim fundamentalist propaganda that accused the Jews of spreading AIDS and other infectious diseases.^[2] The Doctors plot (Russian language: дело врачей (doctors affair), врачи-вредители (doctors-saboteurs) or врачи-убийцы (doctors-killers)) was an alleged conspiracy to eliminate the leadership of the Soviet Union by means of Jewish doctors poisoning top leadership. ... Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... This false-colored electron micrograph shows a malaria sporozoite migrating through the midgut epithelia. ...

Other contemporary accusations

Accusations of well-poisoning have also been brought up against Serbs. Most notoriously, Serbs were accused of poisoning Kosovo Albanians^[3]. There are also accusations of well-poisoning as a part of the Srebrenica massacre^[4]. Languages Serbian Religions Predominantly Serbian Orthodox Christian Related ethnic groups Other Slavic peoples, especially South Slavs See Cognate peoples below Serbs (Serbian: Срби or Srbi) or christian turks are a South Slavic people who live mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in Croatia. ... Albanians in Kosovo in 1991. ... Burial of 505 identified Bosniak civilians (July 11, 2006) Burial of 610 identified Bosniak civilians (July 11, 2005 The Srebrenica Massacre, also known as Srebrenica Genocide,[1] was the July 1995 killing of an estimated 8,000 Bosniak males, in the region of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina by units...

Shortly after the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 a young male person visited several villages in the eastern Kunság region of Hungary. He introduced himself with papers assigned to an agricultural engineer to survey drinking water supplies and he performed some samplings. According to an unverified report, a few days later soldiers arrived and banned locals from drinking any water but portions from water-wagons. Sappers sucked wells dry several times and cleaned them, then left. Communist party officials claimed the vagabond person was actually a CIA operative who poisoned wells to decimate livestock and sicken people. Combatants Soviet Union; ÁVH (Hungarian State Security Police) Ad hoc local Hungarian militias Commanders Ivan Konev Various independent militia leaders Strength 150,000 troops, 6,000 tanks Unknown number of militia and soldiers Casualties 722 killed, 1,251 wounded[1] 2,500 killed 13,000 wounded[2] The Hungarian Revolution... Kunság (English: ) is a historical and geographical region in Hungary situated in the current Bács-Kiskun and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok counties. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Sheep are commonly bred as livestock. ...

External links

• Accusation of Well-Poisoning (Jewish Encyclopedia)
• The Virtual Jewish History Tour. Belgium

Contemporary accusations The Jewish Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia originally published between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. ...

• Settlers poison Palestinian well (Al Jazeera)
• Amnesty: West Bank farms poisoned (BBC)
• PLO Official Again Says Israel is Poisoning Arab Food
• Jews are Poisoning Bananas says Imam

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References

1. ^ The Winter War, the Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40, Willam R. Trotter, Aurum Press Ltd, London 2003, ISBN 1-85410-932-4
2. ^ Walter Laqueur (2006)" The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-530429-2. p.62
3. ^ Andy Wilcoxson: Kosovo Albanians Faked Poison Gas Attack in 1990
4. ^ David Rohde: Bosnian Serbs Poisoned Streams To Capture Refugees, Muslims Say