Complex sentence: In an afterword to this edition in defence of his book, Toaff responded to his critics and forestalling possible misinterpretations by saying that the idea that Jews practiced ritual murder a slanderous stereotype, and that ritual homicide or infanticide was a myth.
Split into simpler sentences: In an afterword to this edition in defence of his book, Toaff responded to his critics. To forestall possible misinterpretations, he said that the idea that Jews practiced ritual murder a slanderous stereotype, and that ritual homicide or infanticide was a myth.