England. An order is issued to expel the entire Jewish community from England. It will be implemented starting October 12 of the same year. The spark had been ignited in Lincoln, a few years earlier, when Jews were blamed for the death of a 9-year-old boy. The story is then exaggerated by word of mouth. Nineteen Jews are tried and executed for it. And a series of vendettas and pogroms will follow for years throughout England. Finally, starting October 12, 1290, the entire Jewish population (at most 2,000 people) is expelled from England. Hugh is buried in Lincoln Cathedral, and miracles are attributed to him in the centuries that follow. Only in 1955, ten years after the Holocaust, did Lincoln Cathedral repudiate the bloody defamation, placing a plaque acknowledging that the story of Jewish responsibility was fabricated and unsupported by any evidence, and that this cost the lives of many innocent Jews. Some fake news stories last 700 years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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