British school to change logo referencing anti-Semitic blood libel [View all]

[Behind the Aegis]

A boarding school in Britain said it will modify its logo following complaints that it references an anti-Semitic blood libel.

Jeremy Wyld, headmaster of St. Hugh’s School in Woodhall Spa, situated some 130 miles north of London, told The Jewish Chronicle that a red dot hanging over a brick wall in the logo would be removed, the paper reported Thursday.

According to the paper, the logo represents a ball flying over a wall in a reference to the story of “Little Saint Hugh.” A 13th-century myth has the boy murdered by a Jewish family after he loses his ball over their wall and is invited to retrieve it.

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