Walter Laqueur writes in his book '' The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism : From Ancient Times to the Present Day '' : 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 . Accusations of well-poisoning have also been brought up against Serbs . Most notoriously , Serbs were accused of poisoning Kosovo Albanians . There are also accusations of well-poisoning as a part of the Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Well poisoning