Editing Blood libel (section)

===Medieval context===
The blood libels emerged at a time when the church and particularly the Crusades were driving increasingly anti-Judaic discourses. These were later reinforced through the Church council [[Lateran IV]] which mandated the segregation of Christian and Jewish society, and built an apparatus of enforcement across Europe.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}} At a local context, many of the English examples may have included an element of church competition for saintly cults, with the income that veneration produced.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}

[[Israel Yuval]] proposed that the blood libel may have originated in the 12th century due to Christian views on Jewish behavior during the [[First Crusade]]. Some Jews committed suicide and killed their own children rather than exposing them to [[forced conversion]] to Christianity. Yuval wrote that Christians may have argued that if Jews could kill their own children, they could also kill Christian children.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/827036.html |title=And if it's not good for the Jews? |first=Lily |last=Galili |work=[[Haaretz]] |date=18 February 2007 |access-date=2007-02-18}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">''Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages'' by Israel J. Yuval; translated by Barbara Harshav and Jonathan Chipman, [[University of California Press]], 2006</ref>