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Isn't that a popular conspiracy theory in multiple countries already, people in power snatching children for their blood? I know my neighbor believes that our prime minister drinks children's blood.
Claiming that it's "the Jews" is such ancient antisemiticism that it has its own name: the blood libel. It started as "they need blood for sacrifices (during passover especially) and sweet christian children have the best blood." But it's spread for so long and mutated over the years that claims of outright Jewish vampirism are quite common in bigot circles.
I wouldn't be surprised that it's spread into the wider conspiracy theory world. A lot of antisemitic tropes eventually get broadly applied when the bigotry is disconnected.
Oh, right! I was only vaguely familiar with the blood libel thing, it explains a lot.