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In a 2017 article in the journal Israel Studies, researchers David Gurevich and Yisca Harani found that false accounts blaming the slaying on "settlers" and "Zionist extremists" persisted even after the arrest of the assailant and his confinement in a mental institution, and that there were "patterns of [[Blood libel|ritual murder]] accusation in the popular narrative." The same theme was echoed in parts of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] community and by some secular sources, including ''Blackwell's Dictionary of Eastern Christianity'', the ''Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'', ''[[The Spectator]]'' and ''[[The Times Literary Supplement|Times Literary Supplement]],'' as well as Wikipedia.<ref name=Gurevich/><ref>{{Cite web|title = Lynne Rienner Publishers {{!}} Encyclopedia of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict|url = [https://www.rienner.com/title/Encyclopedia_of_the_Israeli_Palestinian_Conflict"Lynne Rienner Publishers |website = Encyclopedia of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict".] www.rienner.com|access-date = . Retrieved 2016-02-24|quote = . "... a radical Rabbi settler and his followers came to the monastery ... the extremists came back and tortured and killed ... no one was ever arrested or tried for the crimes.}}"</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1 = Dalrymple, William Dalrymple|title = The Spectator|url = . [http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/22nd-october-1994/14/if-i-forget-thee-0-jerusalem|date = 21 October 1994|page = 14|quote = The Spectator]. "...a settler had poisoned his dogs, attacked him with an axe, then incinerated his remains with a grenade.}}"</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Ken Parry |author2=; David J. Melling |author3=; Dimitri Brady |author4=; Sidney H. Griffith |author5=; John F. Healey |title = The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity|year = (2001|isbn = 9780631232032|url = ). [http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631232032_chunk_g978063123203220_ss1-39|quote = The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity.] ISBN 9780631232032. "was murdered by Zionist extremists determined to remove Christians entirely from this sacred Jewish site" "was murdered by Zionist extremists determined to remove Christians entirely from this sacred Jewish site"}}</ref>
Gurevich and Harani contended that a 1989 account of the murder, published in ''Orthodox America'', a publication of the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]], became the basis of an anti-Semitic [[Blood libel|ritual murder]] narrative, according to which a group of anti-Christianity Jews first harassed Philoumenos and destroyed Christian holy objects at the monastery, then murdered him.<ref name=Gurevich/>
