The TIMELINE- REDUX

Several recent requests to re-post this result in just that.

The Holocaust is just one line in this timeline of hatred and actions against the Jews

Think of this as the reason the existence of Israel, and therefore Zionism is COMPULSORY if jews are to live on earth.

The Timeline of Anti-Semitism


Tacitus writes anti-Jewish polemic in his Histories (book 5). He reports on several old myths of ancient anti-Semitism (including that of the donkey’s head in the Holy of Holies), but the key to his view that Jews “regard the rest of mankind with all the hatred of enemies” is his analysis of the extreme differences between monotheistic Judaism and the polytheism common throughout the Roman world.
115-117
Thousands of Jews are killed during civil unrest in Egypt, Cyprus, and Cyrenaica, as recounted by Dio Cassius’ History of Rome (68.31), and Eusebius’ Historia Ecclesiastica (4.2), and papyrii.
119
Roman emperor Hadrian bans circumcision, making Judaism de facto illegal.
2nd Century
Melito of Sardis writes “On the Passion” declares Jews guilty of the death of Christ [deicide] and for the first time, asks Rome to consider Jews and Christians separately in persecutions
200 
Philostratus:Greek Philosopher, Alexandria, declares the Jews enemies of Rome and humanity.
306 
The Synod of Elvira bans intermarriage between Christians and Jews. Other social intercourses, such as eating together, are also forbidden.
313 A.D.
Constantine takes over the Roman Empire, declares the Jews unclean and ‘pernicious’; opens religious tolerance and assimilation to Christians, but bans the Jews in the Edict of Milan.
325 A.D.
1st Council of Nicea: Easter separated from Passover: Jews noted as ‘detestable’ and ‘blinded’. Easter comes from “Ishtar’ though, and while celebration is of the Passion of Christ, the Passover is the Biblical feast.
388 
A Christian mob incited by the local bishop plunders and burns down a synagogue in Callinicum.
399 
The Western Roman Emperor Honorius calls Judaism superstitio indigna and confiscates gold and silver collected by the synagogues for Jerusalem.
415
Jews are accused of ritual murder during Purim.[1] Christians in Antioch, and Magona confiscate or burn synagogues. Bishop Cyril of Alexandria forces his way into the synagogue, expels the Jews and gives their property to the mob. Prefect Orestes is stoned almost to death for protesting.
418
The first record of Jews being forced to convert or face expulsion. Severus, the Bishop of Minorca, claimed to have forced 540 Jews to accept Christianity upon conquering the island.
419
The monk Barsauma (subsequently the Bishop of Nisibis) gathers a group of followers and for the next three years destroys synagogues throughout the Palestine.
429
The East Roman Emperor Theodosius II orders all funds raised by Jews to support schools be turned over to his treasury.
439 Jan 31
Code of Theodosius, the first imperial compilation of laws. Jews are prohibited from holding important positions involving money, including judicial and executive offices. The ban against building new synagogues is reinstated. The anti-Jewish statutes apply to the Samaritans. The Code is also accepted by Western Roman Emperor, Valentinian III.
451
Sassanid ruler Yazdegerd II of Persia’s decree abolishes the Sabbath and orders executions of Jewish leaders, including the Exilarch Mar Nuna.
465
Council of Vannes, Gaul prohibited the Christian clergy from participating in Jewish feasts.
The 6th century
559
Byzantine Emperor Justinian the Great publishes Corpus Juris Civilis. New laws restrict citizenship to Christians. These regulations determined the status of Jews throughout the Empire for hundreds of years: Jewish civil rights restricted: “they shall enjoy no honors”. The principle of Servitus Judaeorum (Servitude of the Jews) is established: the Jews cannot testify against Christians. The emperor becomes an arbiter in internal Jewish matters. The use of the Hebrew language in worship is forbidden. Shema Yisrael (“Hear, O Israel, the Lord is one”), sometimes considered the most important prayer in Judaism, is banned as a denial of the Trinity. Some Jewish communities are converted by force, their synagogues turned into churches.
535
The First Council of Clermont, Gaul prohibits Jews from holding public office.
538
The Third Council of Orléans, Gaul forbids Jews to employ Christian servants or possess Christian slaves. Jews are prohibited from appearing in the streets during Easter: “their appearance is an insult to Christianity”. A Merovingian king Childebert approves the measure.
576
Clermont, Gaul. Bishop Avitus offers Jews a choice: accept Christianity or leave Clermont. Most emigrate to Marseille.
587
King Reccared of Visigothic Spain bans Jews from slave ownership, intermarriage and holding positions of authority, and Reccared also declares that children of mixed marriages must be raised Christian.
589
The Council of Narbonne, Gaul forbids Jews from chanting psalms while burying their dead. Anyone violating this law is fined 6 ounces of gold.
590
Pope Gregory I defends the Jews against forced conversion.
The 7th century
610-620
Visigothic Hispania After many of his anti-Jewish edicts were ignored, king Sisebur prohibits Judaism. Those not baptized fled. This was the first incidence where a prohibition of Judaism affected an entire country.
614
Fifth Council of Paris decrees that all Jews holding military or civil positions must accept baptism, together with their families.
615
Italy. The earliest referral to the Juramentum Judaeorum (the Jewish Oath): the concept that no heretic could be believed in court against a Christian. The oath became standardized throughout Europe in 1555.
629 Mar. 21
Byzantine Emperor Heraclius with his army marches into Jerusalem. Jewish inhabitants support him after his promise of amnesty. Upon his entry into Jerusalem the local priests convince him that killing Jews is a good deed. Hundreds of Jews are massacred, thousands flee to Egypt.
Frankish King Dagobert I, encouraged by Byzantine Emperor Heraclius, expels all Jews from the kingdom.
632
The first case of officially sanctioned forced baptism. Emperor Heraclius violates the Theodosian Law, which protected them from forced conversions.
681
The Twelfth Council of Toledo, Spain orders burning of the Talmud and other “heretic” books.
682
Visigothic king Erwig begins his reign by enacting 28 anti-Jewish laws. He presses for the “utter extirpation of the pest of the Jews” and decrees that all converts must be registered by a parish priest, who must issue travel permits. All holidays, Christian and Jewish, must be spent in the presence of a priest to ensure piety and to prevent the backsliding.
692
Quinisext Council in Constantinople forbids Christians on pain of excommunication to bathe in public baths with Jews, employ a Jewish doctor or socialize with Jews.
694
17th Council of Toledo, Spain. King Ergica believes rumors that the Jews had conspired to ally themselves with the Muslim invaders and forces Jews to give all land, slaves and buildings bought from Christians, to his treasury. He declares that all Jewish children over the age of seven should be taken from their homes and raised as Christians.

The 8th century
717
Caliph Omar II introduces discriminatory regulations against the dhimmi, among them for Jews to wear a special yellow garb.
722
Byzantine emperor Leo III forcibly converts all Jews and Montanists in the empire into mainstream Byzantine Christianity.
The 9th century
A fellow editor requested that someone provide references or some sources for the information in this section.
807
Abbassid Caliph Harun al-Rashid orders all Jews in the Caliphate to wear a yellow belt, with Christians to wear a blue one.
820
Agobard, Archbishop of Lyon, declares in his essays that Jews are accursed and demands a complete segregation of Christians and Jews. In 826 he issues a series of pamphlets to convince Emperor Louis the Pious to attack “Jewish insolence”, but fails to convince the Emperor.
898-929
French king Charles the Simple confiscates Jewish-owned property in Narbonne and donates it to the Church.

The 11th century
1008-1013
Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah issues severe restrictions against Jews in the Land of Israel. All Jews are forced to wear a “golden calf” (made of wood) around their necks. On Oct. 18 1009 he destroys the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but the French “historian” Raoul Glaber blames the Jews. As a result, Jews were expelled from Limoges and other French towns.
1012
One of the first known persecutions of Jews in Germany: Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor expels Jews from Mainz.
1016
The Jewish community of Kairouan, Tunisia is forced to chose between conversion and expulsion.
1032
Abul Kamal Tumin conquers Fez, Morocco and decimates the Jewish community, killing 6,000 Jews.
1050
Council of Narbonne, France forbids Christians to live in Jewish homes.
1066 Dec 30
The entire Jewish community of Granada came under the riotous siege resulting in 4,000 deaths and the destruction of most property. The community quickly recovered, only to fall again at the hands of the Almoravides lead by Iban Iashufin in 1090, bringing the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain to end.
1078
Council of Gerona decrees Jews to pay taxes for support of the Catholic Church to the same extent as Christians.
Jews (identifiable by Judenhut) are being massacred by Crusaders.1250 French Bible illustration
1096
The First Crusade. Three hosts of crusaders pass through several Central European cities. The third, unofficial host, led by Count Emicho, decides to attack the Jewish communities, most notably in the Rhineland, under the slogan: “Why fight Christ’s enemies abroad when they are living among us?” Eimicho’s host attacks the synagogue at Speyers and kills all the defenders. Another 1,200 Jews commit suicide in Mayence to escape his attempt to forcibly convert them; see German Crusade, 1096. Attempts by the local bishops remained fruitless. All in all, 5,000 Jews were murdered. St. Bernard attempts to stop further atrocities: “Whoever makes an attempt on a life of a Jew, sins as if he had attacked Jesus himself.”

The 12th century
1107
Moroccan Almoravid ruler Yoseph Ibn Tashfin orders all Moroccan Jews to convert or leave.
1143
150 Jews were killed in Ham, France.
1144 March 20 (Passover)
The first blood libel in which the Jews of Norwich, England were accused of ritual murder after a Christian boy (William of Norwich) is found dead. It was claimed that the Jews had tortured and crucified their victim. From this time forward, similar charges were levelled against Jews in all quarters of Europe. The believers of these accusations reasoned that the Jews, having crucified Jesus, continued to thirst for pure and innocent blood and satisfied their thirst at the expense of innocent Christian children. In accordance with this logic, the season of such charges was typically in Spring around the time of Passover which approximately coincides with the time of Jesus’ death. [Ben-Sasson, H.H., Editor; (1969). A History of The Jewish People. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-674-39731-2 (paper).] The legend of William of Norwich became a cult, and the child acquired status of martyr saint. In 1189, Jewish deputation attending coronation of Richard the Lionheart is attacked by the crowd. Pogroms in London follow and spread around England. On Feb 6 1190 all the Norwich Jews found in their houses were slaughtered, except few who found refuge in the castle.
1148-1212
The rule of the Almohads. Only Jews who had converted to Christianity or Islam are allowed to live in Granada. One of the refugees was Rambam (AKA Maimonides) who settled in Fez and later in Fustat near Cairo.
1165
forced mass conversions in Yemen
1171
Blois, France: 31 Jews burned at the stake for blood libel.
1179
The Third Lateran Council, Canon 26: Jews are forbidden to be plaintiffs or witnesses against Christians in the Courts. Jews are forbidden to withhold inheritance from descendants who had accepted Christianity.
1180
Philip Augustus of France after four months in power, imprisons all the Jews in his lands and demands a ransom for their release. In 1181 he annuls all loans made by Jews to Christians and takes a percentage for himself. A year later, he confiscates all Jewish property and expels the Jews from Paris. He readmits them in 1198, only after another ransom was paid and a taxation scheme was set up to procure funds for himself.
1189
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa orders priests not to preach against Jews.
1190 Mar. 16
500 Jews of York massacred after 6-day siege by departing Crusaders, backed by a number of people indebted to Jewish money-lenders. York Masssacre

1190
Saladdin takes over Jerusalem from Crusaders and lifts the ban for Jews to live there.
1198 Aug
Saladdin’s nephew al-Malik, caliph of Yemen, summons all the Jews and forcibly converts them.
The 13th century
Judensau at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Regensburg, Germany. Appearance of Judensau: obscene and dehumanizing imagery of Jews, ranging from etchings to Cathedral ceilings. Its popularity lasted for over 600 years.
1215
The Fourth Lateran Council headed by Pope Innocent III declares: “Jews and Saracens of both sexes in every Christian province and at all times shall be marked off in the eyes of the public from other peoples through the character of their dress.” (Canon 68). See Judenhut. The Fourth Lateran Council also noted that the Jews’ own law required the wearing of identifying symbols. Pope Innocent III also reiterated papal injunctions against forcible conversions, and added: “No Christian shall do the Jews any personal injury…or deprive them of their possessions…or disturb them during the celebration of their festivals…or extort money from them by threatening to exhume their dead.”
1222
Council of Oxford: Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton forbids Jews from building new synagogues, owning slaves or mixing with Christians.
1232
forced mass conversions in Marakesh.
1235
The Jews of Fulda, Germany were accused of ritual murder. To investigate the blood libel, Emperor Frederick II held a special conference of Jewish converts to Christianity at which the converts were questioned about Jewish ritual practice. Letters inviting prominant individuals to the conference still survive. At the conference, the converts stated unequivocally that Jews do not harm Christian children or require blood for any rituals. In 1236 the Emperor published these findings and in 1247 Pope Innocent IV, the Emperor’s enemy, also denounced accusations of the ritual murder of Christian children by Jews. In 1272, the papal repudiation of the blood libel was repeated by Pope Gregory X, who also ruled that thereafter any such testimony of a Christian against a Jew could not be accepted unless it is confirmed by another Jew. Unfortunately, these proclamations from the highest sources were not effective in altering the beliefs of the Christian majority and the libels continued. [Ben-Sasson, H.H., Editor; (1969). A History of The Jewish People. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-674-39731-2 (paper).]
1236
Crusaders attack Jewish communities of Anjou and Poitou and attempt to baptize all the Jews. Those who resisted (est. 3,000) were slaughtered.
1240
Duke Jean le Roux expels Jews from Brittany.
1240
Disputation of Paris. Pope Gregory IX puts Talmud on trial on the charges that it contains blasphemy against Jesus and Mary and attacks on the Church. In 1242 24 cart-loads of hand-written manuscripts were burned in the streets of Paris.
1242
James I of Aragon orders Jews to listen to conversion sermons and to attend churches. Friars are given power to enter synagogues uninvited.

1244
Pope Innocent IV orders Louis IX of France to burn all Talmud copies.
1250
Zaragoza: death of a choirboy Saint Dominguito del Val prompts ritual murder accusation. His sainthood was revoked in the 20th century but reportedly a chapel dedicated to him still exists in the Cathedral of Zaragoza.
1254
Louis IX expels the Jews from France, their property and synagogues confiscated. Most move to Germany and further east, however, after a couple of years, some were readmitted back.
1255
King Henry III of England, protector of the Jews, sells his rights to the Jews to his brother Richard for 5,000 marks.
c. 1260
Thomas Aquinas publishes Summa Contra Gentiles, a summary of Christian faith to be presented to those who reject it. The Jews who refuse to convert are regarded as “deliberately defiant” rather than “invincibly ignorant”.
1263
Disputation of Barcelona.
1264
Pope Clement IV assigns Talmud censorship committee.
1267
In a special session, the Vienna city council forces Jews to wear Pileum cornutum (a cone-shaped headdress, prevalent in many medieval illustrations of Jews). This distinctive dress is an addition to Yellow badge Jews were already forced to wear. Christians are not permitted to attend Jewish ceremonies.
1267
Synod of Breslau orders Jews to live in a segregated quarter.
1275
King Edward I of England passes anti-Jewish statute forcing Jews over the age of seven to wear an identifying Yellow badge, and making usury illegal (linked to blasphemy), in order to seize their assets. Scores of English Jews are arrested, 300 hanged and their property goes to the Crown. In 1280 he orders Jews to be present at Dominicans preaching conversion. In 1287 he arrests heads of Jewish families and demands their communities to pay ransom of 12,000 pounds.
1278
The Edict of Pope Nicholas III requires compulsory attendance of Jews at conversion sermons.
1279
Synod of Ofen: Christians are forbidden to sell or rent real estate to or from Jews.
1282
John Pectin, Archbishop of Canterbury, orders all London synagogues to close and prohibits Jewish physicians from practicing on Christians.
1283
Philip III of France causes mass migration of Jews by forbidding them to live in the small rural localities.
1285
Blood libel in Munich, Germany results in the death of 68 Jews. 180 more Jews are burned alive at the synagogue.
1287
A mob in Oberwesel, Germany kills 40 Jewish men, women and children after a ritual murder accusation.
1289
Jews are expelled from Gascony and Anjou.
1290 July 18
Edict of Expulsion: Edward I expels all Jews from England, allowing them to take only what they could carry, all the other property became the Crown’s. Official reason: continued practice of usury.
1291
Philip the Fair publishes an ordinance prohibiting the Jews to settle in France.
1298
German knight Rindfleisch leads massacres of thousands of Jews in 146 localities.

The 14th century
1305
Philip IV of France seizes all Jewish property (except the clothes they wear) and expels them from France (approx. 100,000). His successor Louis X of France allows French Jews to return in 1315.
1320
Shepherds’ Crusade attacks the Jews of 120 localities in southwest France.
1321
King Henry II of Castile forces Jews to wear Yellow badge.
1321
Jews in central France falsely charged of their supposed collusion with lepers to poison wells. After massacre of est. 5,000 Jews, king Philip V of France admits they were innocent.
1322
King Charles IV expels Jews from France.
1333
forced mass conversions in Baghdad
1336
Persecutions against Jews in Franconia and Alsace led by lawless German bands, the Armleder.
1348
European Jews are blamed for the Black Death. Charge laid to the Jews that they poisoned the wells. Massacres spread throughout Spain, France, Germany and Austria. More than 200 Jewish communities destroyed by violence. Many communities have been expelled and settle down in Poland.
1348
Basel: 600 Jews burned at the stake, 140 children forcibly baptized, the remaining city’s Jews expelled. The city synagogue is turned into a church and the Jewish cemetery is destroyed.
1359
Charles V of France allows Jews to return for a period of 20 years in order to pay ransom for his father John II of France, imprisoned in England. After few extensions, on Nov 3, 1394 his son Charles VI of France expels all Jews from France.
1386
Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, expels the Jews from Swabian League and Strasbourg and confiscates their property. On March 18, 1389, a Jewish boy is accused of plotting against a priest. The mob slaughters approx. 3,000 of Prague Jews, destroys the city’s synagogue and Jewish cemetery. Wenceslaus insists that the responsibility lay with the Jews for going outside during the Holy Week.
1391
Violence incited by Archdeacon of Ecija Ferrand Martinez, results in over 10,000 murdered Jews. The Jewish quarter in Barcelona is destroyed. The campaign quickly spreads throughout Spain (except for Granada) and destroys Jewish communities in Valencia and Palma De Majorca.
1399
Blood libel in Posen.
The 15th century
1411
Oppressive legislation against Jews in Spain as an outcome of the preaching of the Dominican friar Vicente Ferrer.
1413
Disputation of Tortosa, Spain, staged by the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII, is followed by forced mass conversions.
1420
All Jews are expelled from Lyons.
1421
Persecutions of Jews in Vienna, known as Wiener Gesera (Vienna Edict), confiscation of their possessions, and forced conversion of Jewish children. 270 Jews burned at stake. Expulsion of Jews from Austria.
1422
Pope Martin V issues a Bull reminding Christians that Christianity was derived from Judaism and warns the friars not to incite against the Jews. The Bull was withdrawn the following year on allegations that the Jews of Rome attained it by fraud.
1431
German Knight Saufleisch massacres Jews of Madrid upon entering the city.
1434
Council of Basel, Sessio XIX: Jews are forbidden to obtain academic degrees and to act as agents in the conclusion of contracts between Christians.
1435
Massacre and forced conversion of Majorcan Jews.
1438
Establishment of mellahs (ghettos) in Morocco.
1447
Casimir IV renews all the rights of Jews of Poland and makes his charter one of the most liberal in Europe. He revokes it in 1454 at the insistence of Bishop Zbigniew.
1449
The Statute of Toledo introduces the rule of purity of blood discriminating Conversos. Pope Nicholas V condems it.
1463
Pope Nicholas V authorizes the establishment of the Inquisition to investigate heresy among the Marranos. See also Crypto-Judaism.
1473-1474
Spain. Massacres of Marranos of Valladolid, Cordoba, Segovia, Ciudad Real.

Simon of Trent blood libel. Illustration in Hartmann Schedel’s Weltchronik
1475
A student of the preacher Giovanni da Capistrano, Franciscan Bernardino de Fletre, accuses the Jews in murdering an infant, Simon. The entire community is arrested, 15 leaders are burned at the stake, the rest are expelled. In 1588, Pope Sixtus V confirmed Simon’s cultus. Saint Simon was considered a martyr and patron of kidnap and torture victims for almost 500 years. In 1965, Pope Paul VI declared the episode a fraud, and decanonized Simon’s sainthood.
1481
The Spanish Inquisition is instituted.
1487-1504
Bishop Gennady exposes the heresy of Zhidovstvuyshchy (Judaizers) in Eastern Orthodoxy of Muscovy.
1490
Tomás de Torquemada burns 6,000 volumes of Jewish mansucripts in Salamanca.
1491
The blood libel in La Guardia, Spain, where the alleged victim Holy Child of La Guardia became revered as a saint.
1492 Mar. 31
Ferdinand II and Isabella issue General Edict on the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain: approx. 200,000. Some return to the Land of Israel. As many localities and entire countries expel their Jewish citizens (after robbing them), and others deny them entrance, the legend of the Wandering Jew, a condemned harbinnger of calamity, gains popularity.
1492 Oct. 24
Jews of Mecklenburg, Germany are accused of stabbing a consecrated wafer. 27 Jews are burned, including two women. The spot is still called the Judenberg. All the Jews are expelled from the Duchy.
1493 Jan. 12
Expulsion from Sicily: approx. 37,000.
1496
Forced conversion and expulsion of Jews from Portugal. This included many who fled Spain four years earlier.
1498
Prince Alexander of Lithuania forces most of the Jews to forfeit their property or convert. The main motivation is to cancel the debts the nobles owe to the Jews. Within a short time the trade grounds to a halt and the Prince invites the Jews back in.
The 16th century
1501 Jews from Worms, Germany wear the mandatory yellow badge. A moneybag and garlic in the hands are an anti-semitic stereotype. 16th century drawing
1505
Ten Ceské Budejovice Jews are tortured and executed for killing a Christian girl; later, on deathbed, shepherd confesses to fabricating the accusation.
1506 April 19
A marrano expresses his doubts about miracle visions at St. Dominics Church in Lisbon, Portugal. The crowd, led by Dominican monks, kills him, then ransacks Jewish houses and slaughters any Jew they could find. The countrymen hear about the massacre and join in. Over 2,000 marranos killed in three days.
1509 August 19
A converted Jew Johannes Pfefferkorn receives authority of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor to destroy the Talmud and other Jewish religious books, except the Hebrew Bible, in Frankfurt.
1510 July 19
Forty Jews are executed in Brandenburg, Germany for allegedly desecrating the host; remainder expelled. November 23. Less-wealthy Jews expelled from Naples; remainder heavily taxed. 38 Jews burned at the stake in Berlin.
1511 June 6
Eight Roman Catholic converts from Judaism burned at the stake for allegedly reverting.
1516
The first ghetto is established, on one of the islands in Venice.
1519
Martin Luther leads Protestant Reformation and challenges the doctrine of Servitus Judaeorum “… to deal kindly with the Jews and to instruct them to come over to us”. February 21. All Jews expelled from Ratisbon/Regensburg.
1520
Pope Leo X allows Jews print Talmud in Venice
1527 June 16
Jews are ordered to leave Florence, but the edict is soon rescinded.
1528
Three judaizers are burned at the stake in Mexico City’s first auto da fe.
1535
After Spanish troops capture Tunis all the local Jews are sold into slavery.
1543
In his pamphlet On the Jews and Their Lies Martin Luther advocates an eight-point plan to get rid of the Jews as a distinct group either by religious conversion or by expulsion:
"…set fire to their synagogues or schools…"
"…their houses also be razed and destroyed…"
"…their prayer books and Talmudic writings… be taken from them…"
"…their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb…"
"…safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews…"
"…usury be prohibited to them, and that all cash and treasure of silver and gold be taken from them…" and "Such money should now be used in … the following [way]… Whenever a Jew is sincerely converted, he should be handed [certain amount]…"
"…young, strong Jews and Jewesses [should]… earn their bread in the sweat of their brow…"
"If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews’ blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country" and "we must drive them out like mad dogs."
1540
All Jews are banished from Prague.
1545
Lutherans raid and loot synagogue in Berlin. Jews subsequently expelled.
1546
Martin Luther’s sermon Admonition against the Jews contains accusations of ritual murder, black magic, and poisoning of wells. Luther recognizes no obligation to protect the Jews.
1547
Ivan the Terrible becomes ruler of Russia and refuses to allow Jews to live in or even enter his kingdom because they “bring about great evil” (quoting his response to request by Polish king Sigismund).
1550
Dr. Joseph Hacohen is chased out of Genoa for practicing medicine; soon all Jews are expelled.
1553
Pope Julius III forbids Talmud printing and orders burning of any copy found. Rome’s Inquisitor-General, Cardinal Carafa (later Pope Paul IV) has Talmud publicly burnt in Rome on Rosh Hashanah, starting a wave of Talmud burning throughout Italy. About 12,000 copies were destroyed.
1554
Cornelio da Montalcino, a Franciscan Friar who converted to Judaism, is burned alive in Rome.
1555
In Papal Bull Cum nimis absurdum, Pope Paul IV writes: “It appears utterly absurd and impermissible that the Jews, whom God has condemned to eternal slavery for their guilt, should enjoy our Christian love.” He renews anti-Jewish legislation and installs a locked nightly ghetto in Rome. The Bull also forces Jewish males to wear a yellow hat, females - yellow kerchief. Owning real estate or practicing medicine on Christians is forbidden. It also limits Jewish communities to only one synagogue.
1557
Jews are temporarily banished from Prague.
1558
Recanati, Italy: a baptized Jew Joseph Paul More enters synagogue on Yom Kippur under the protection of Pope Paul IV and tries to preach a conversion sermon. The congregation evicts him. Soon after, the Jews are expelled from Recanati.
1559
Pope Pius IV allows Talmud on conditions that it is printed by a Christian and the text is censored.
1563 February
Russian troops take Polotsk from Lithuania, Jews are given ultimatum: embrace Russian Orthodox Church or die. Around 300 Jewish men, women and children were thrown into ice holes of Dvina river.
1564
Brest-Litovsk: the son of a wealthy Jewish tax collector is accused of killing the family’s Christian servant for ritual purposes. He is tortured and executed in line with the law. King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland forbids future charges of ritual murder, calling them groundless.
1565
Jews are temporarily banished from Prague.
1566
Antonio Ghislieri elected and, as Pope Pius V, reinstates the harsh anti-Jewish laws of Pope Paul IV. In 1569 he expels Jews dwelling outside of the ghettos of Rome, Ancona, and Avignon from the Papal States, thus ensuring that they remain city-dwellers.
1586
Pope Sixtus V forbids printing of the Talmud.
1590
Jewish quarter of Mikulov burns to ground and 15 people die while Christians watch or pillage. King Philip II of Spain orders expulsion of Jews from Lombardy. His order is ignored by local authorities until 1597, when 72 Jewish families are forced into exile.
1593 Feb. 25
Pope Clement VIII confirms the Papal bull of Paul III that expels Jews from Papal states except ghettos in Rome and Ancona and issues Caeca et obdurata (“Blind Obstinacy”): “All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. … Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.”
The 17th century
1603
Frei Diogo Da Assumpacao, a partly Jewish friar who embraced Judaism, burned alive in Lisbon.
1608
The Jesuit order forbids admission to anyone descended from Jews to the fifth generation, a restriction lifted in the 20th century. Three years later Pope Paul V applies the rule throughout the Church, but his successor revokes it.
1612
The Hamburg Senate decides to officially allow Jews to live in the city on the condition there is no public worship.
Expulsion of the Jews from Frankfurt on August 23, 1614: “1380 persons old and young were counted at the exit of the gate”
1614
Vincent Fettmilch, who called himself the “new Haman of the Jews”, leads a raid on Frankfurt synagogue that turned into an attack which destroyed the whole community.
1615
King Louis XIII of France decrees that all Jews must leave the country within one month on pain of death.
1615
The Guild led by Dr. Chemnitz, “non-violently” forced the Jews from Worms.
1619
Shah Abbasi of the Persian Sufi Dynasty increases persecution against the Jews, forcing many to outwardly practice Islam. Many keep practicing Judaism in secret.
1624
Ghetto established in Ferrara, Italy.
1632
King Ladislaus IV of Poland forbids Anti-Semitic print-outs.
1648-1655
The Ukrainian Cossacks lead by Bohdan Chmielnicki massacre about 100,000 Jews and similar number of Polish nobles, 300 Jewish communities destroyed.
1655
Oliver Cromwell readmits Jews to England.
1664 May
Jews of Lvov ghetto organize self-defense against impending assault by students of Jesuit seminary and Cathedral school. The militia sent by the officials to restore order, instead joined the attackers. About 100 Jews killed.
1670
Jews expelled from Vienna.
1678
Forced mass conversions in Yemen.
The 18th century
1711
Johann Andreas Eisenmenger writes his Entdecktes Judenthum (“Judaism Unmasked”), a work denouncing Judaism and which had a formative influence on modern anti-Semitic polemics.
1712
Blood libel in Sandomierz and expulsion of the town’s Jews.
1727
Edict of Catherine I of Russia: “The Jews… who are found in Ukraine and in other Russian provinces are to be expelled at once beyond the frontiers of Russia.”
1736: The Haidamaks, paramilitary bands in Polish Ukraine, attack Jews.
1742 Dec
Elizabeth of Russia issues a decree of expulsion of all the Jews out of Russian Empire. Her resolution to the Senate’s appeal regarding harm to the trade: “I don’t desire any profits from the enemies of Christ”. One of the deportees is Antonio Ribera Sanchez, her own personal physician and the head of army’s medical dept.
1744
Frederick II The Great (a “heroic genius”, according to Hitler) limits Breslau to ten “protected” Jewish families, on the grounds that otherwise they will “transform it into complete Jerusalem”. He encourages this practice in other Prussian cities. In 1750 he issues Revidiertes General Privilegium und Reglement vor die Judenschaft: “protected” Jews had an alternative to “either abstain from marriage or leave Berlin” (Simon Dubnow).
1744 Dec
Archduchess of Austria Maria Theresa orders: “… no Jew is to be tolerated in our inherited duchy of Bohemia” by the end of Feb. 1745. In Dec. 1748 she reverses her position, on condition that Jews pay for readmission every ten years. This extortion was known as malke-geld (queen’s money). In 1752 she introduces the law limiting each Jewish family to one son.
1762
Rhode Island refuses to grant Jews Aaron Lopez and Isaac Eliezer citizenship stating “no person who is not of the Christian religion can be admitted free to this colony.”
1768
Haidamaks massacre the Jews of Uman, Poland.
1771
Voltaire calls Jews “deadly to the human race”, promotes racial antisemitism.
1775
Pope Pius VI issues a severe Editto sopra gli ebrei (Edict concerning the Jews). Previously lifted restrictions are reimposed, Judaism is suppressed.
1782
Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II abolishes most of persecution practices in Toleranzpatent on condition that Yiddish and Hebrew are eliminated from public records and judicial autonomy is annulled. Judaism is branded “quintessence of foolishness and nonsense”. Moses Mendelssohn writes: “Such a tolerance… is even more dangerous play in tolerance than open persecution”.
1790 May 20
Eleazer Solomon is quartered for the alleged murder of a Christian girl in Grodno.
1790
"To Bigotry No Sanction, to Persecution No Assistance" (George Washington’s Letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island)
1790-1792
Destruction of most of the Jewish communities of Morocco.
1791
Catherine II of Russia confines Jews to the Pale of Settlement and imposes them with double taxes. Pale of Settlement

The 19th century
1805
Massacre of Jews in Algeria.
1815
Pope Pius VII reestablishes the ghetto in Rome after the defeat of Napoleon.
1819
A series of anti-Jewish riots in Germany that spread to several neighboring countries: Denmark, Poland, Latvia and Bohemia known as Hep-Hep Riots, from the derogatory rallying cry against the Jews in Germany.
1827 August 26
Compulsory military service for the Jews of Russia: Jewish boys under 18 years of age, known as the Cantonists, were placed in preparatory military training establishments for 25 years. Cantonists were encouraged and sometimes forced to baptize.
1835
Oppressive constitution for the Jews issued by Czar Nicholas I of Russia.
1840
The Damascus affair: false accusations cause arrests and atrocities, culminating in the seizure of sixty-three Jewish children and attacks on Jewish communities throughout the Middle East.

1844
Karl Marx praises Bruno Bauer’s essays containing demands that the Jews abandon Judaism, and publishes his work On the Jewish Question: “What is the worldly cult of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money… Money is the jealous God of Israel, besides which no other god may exist… The god of the Jews has been secularized and has become the god of this world”, “In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism.”
1853
Blood libels in Saratov and throughout Russia.
1858
Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy whom a maid had baptised during an illness, is taken from his parents in Bologna, an episode which aroused universal indignation in liberal circles.
1862
Polish Jews are given equal rights. Old privileges forbidding Jews to settle in some cities are abolished.
1871
Speech of Pope Pius IX in regard to Jews: “of these dogs, there are too many of them at present in Rome, and we hear them howling in the streets, and they are disturbing us in all places.”
1878
Adolf Stoecker, German anti-Semitic preacher and politician, founds the Social Workers’ Party, which marks the beginning of the political anti-Semitic movement in Germany.
1879
Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian and politician, justifies the anti-Semitic campaigns in Germany, bringing anti-Semitism into learned circles.
1879
Wilhelm Marr coins the term Anti-Semitism to distinguish himself from religious Anti-Judaism.
1881-1884
Pogroms sweep southern Russia, propelling mass Jewish emigration: about 2 million Russian Jews emigrated in period 1880-1920.
The Russian word “pogrom” becomes international.
1882
The Tiszaeszlár blood libel in Hungary arouses public opinion throughout Europe.

1882
First International Anti-Jewish Congress convenes at Dresden, Germany.
1882 May
A series of “temporary laws” by Tsar Alexander III of Russia (the May Laws), which adopted a systematic policy of discrimination, with the object of removing the Jews from their economic and public positions, in order to “cause one-third of the Jews to emigrate, one-third to accept baptism and one-third to starve” (according to a remark attributed to Konstantin Pobedonostsev)
1887
Russia introduces measures to limit Jews access to education, known as the quota.
1891
Blood libel in Xanten, Germany.
1891
Expulsion of 20,000 Jews from Moscow, Russia. The Congress of the United States eases immigration restrictions for Jews from the Russian Empire. (Webster-Campster report)
1893
Karl Lueger establishes anti-Semitic Christian Social Party and becomes the Mayor of Vienna in 1897.
1894
The treason conviction of Alfred Dreyfus, covered by a young Austrian reporter, Theodore Herzl.
The Dreyfus Affair in France. In 1898 Émile Zola publishes open letter J’accuse!
1895
A. C. Cuza organizes the Alliance Anti-semitique Universelle in Bucharest, Romania. (Do not confuse with reformist Romanian ruler Alexander John Cuza).
1899
Houston Stewart Chamberlain, racist and anti-Semitic author, publishes his Die Grundlagen des 19 Jahrhunderts which later became a basis of National-Socialist ideology.
1899
Blood libel in Bohemia (the Hilsner case).

The 20th century
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Roman Catholic Church adhered to a distinction between “good anti-Semitism” and “bad anti-Semitism”. The “bad” kind promoted hatred of Jews because of their descent. This was considered un-Christian because the Christian message was intended for all of humanity regardless of ethnicity; anyone could become a Christian. The “good” kind criticized alleged Jewish conspiracies to control newspapers, banks, and other institutions, to care only about accumulation of wealth, etc. Many Catholic bishops wrote articles criticizing Jews on such grounds, and, when accused of promoting hatred of Jews, would remind people that they condemned the “bad” kind of anti-Semitism.[2]

1903
The Kishinev pogrom: 49 Jews murdered.
1905
The first appearance of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Russia.
1913 
The Blood libel trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis in Kiev.
1915
The World War I prompts expulsion of 250,000 Jews from Western Russia.
1917-1921
Attacked for being revolutionaries or counter-revolutionaries, unpatriotic pacifists or warmongers, religious zealots or godless atheists, capitalist exploiters or bourgeois profiteers, masses of Jewish civilians (by various estimates 70,000 to 250,000, the number of orphans exceeded 300,000) were murdered in pogroms in the course of Russian Civil War. Out of estimated 900 mass pogroms:
" about 40% were perpetrated by the forces led by Simon Petlyura fighting for Ukrainian directorate. Its president Vladimir Vinnichenko was quoted as saying: "The pogroms will cease when Jews will cease to be Communists",
" 25% by the Green Army and various nationalist and anarchist gangs,
" 17% by the White Army, especially forces of Anton Denikin,
" 8.5% by the Red Army.[3]
1919-1922
Soviet Yevsektsiya (the Jewish section of the Communist Party) attacks Bund and Zionist parties for “Jewish cultural particularism”. In April 1920, the All-Russian Zionist Congress is broken up by Cheka led by Bolsheviks, whose leadership and ranks included many anti-Jewish Jews. Thousands are arrested and sent to Gulag for “counter-revolutionary… collusion in the interests of Anglo-French bourgeoisie… to restore the Palestine state.” Hebrew language is banned, Judaism is suppressed, along with other religions.
1920
The Jerusalem pogrom of April, 1920 of old Yishuv, incited by Haj Amin Al-Husseini.
The Protocols issued by Russian emigrants in Paris, 1927
The idea that the Bolshevik revolution was a Jewish conspiracy for the world domination sparks worldwide interest in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In a single year, five editions are sold out in England alone. In the US Henry Ford prints 500,000 copies and begins a series of anti-Semitic articles in The Dearborn Independent newspaper.
1921 May 1-4
Jaffa riots in Palestine.
1921-1925
Outbreak of Anti-Semitism in USA, lead by Ku Klux Klan.
1925
Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
1929 August 23
1936 The ancient Jewish community of Hebron destroyed in the Hebron massacre. [4]
1939-1945 ALL OF EUROPE ENVELOPED

1946
Nikita Khrushchev, then the first secretary of Communist party of Ukraine, closes many synagogues (the number declines from 450 to 60) and prevents Jewish refugees from returning to their homes: “It is not in our interests that the Ukrainians should associate the return of the Soviet power with the return of the Jews.” [8]
1948 January 13
Solomon Mikhoels, actor-director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater and chairman of Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee is killed in suspicious car accident (see MGB). Mass arrests of prominent Jewish intellectuals and suppression of Jewish culture follow under the banners of campaign on rootless cosmopolitanism and anti-Zionism.
1948-2001
Anti-Semitism played a major role in the Jewish exodus from Arab lands. The Jewish population in the Arab Middle East and North Africa has decreased from 900,000 in 1948 to less than 8,000 in 2001.
1952 Aug. 12
The Night of Murdered Poets. Some 13 Soviet Yiddish writers were executed, among them Peretz Markish, Leib Kwitko, David Hoffstein, Itzik Feffer, David Bergelson, Der Nister. In 1955 UN General Assembly’s session a high Soviet official still denied the “rumors” about their disappearance.
1952
The Prague Trials in Czechoslovakia.
1953
The Doctors’ plot false accusation in the USSR. Scores of Soviet Jews dismissed from their jobs, arrested, some executed.
1964
The Catholic Church under Pope Paul VI issues the document Nostra Aetate as part of Vatican II, repudiating the doctrine of Jewish guilt for the Crucifixion.
"Judaism Without Embellishments" published by the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in 1963
1960s-1991
The rise of Zionology in the Soviet Union. In 1983, the Department of Propaganda and the KGB’s Anti-Zionist committee of the Soviet public orchestrates formally “anti-Zionist” campaign.
1968
Polish 1968 political crisis. The state-organized anti-Semitic campaign in the People’s Republic of Poland under guise of “anti-Zionism” drives out most of remaining Jewish population.
1972
The Munich Olympic Massacre.
1983
The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod officially disassociates itself from “intemperate remarks about Jews” in Luther’s works. Since then, many Lutheran church bodies and organizations have issued similar statements. (See Martin Luther and the Jews)
Since 1987
Activities of Pamyat and other “nonformal” ultra-nationalist organizations in the Soviet Union.
1992 March 17
The Israeli Embassy Attack in Buenos Aires. 29 killed, and 242 wounded.
1994 July 18
Buenos Aires. The Argentina-Israeli Mutual Association building bombing. 86 killed, 300 wounded.
The 21st century
2001 after September 11
"Support of Israel" is among the reasons cited by Osama bin Ladin/Al-Qaeda for the 9/11 attacks.
2003 October 16
The Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohammed draws standing ovation at the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference for his speech. An excerpt: “…But today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them… They invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong…”
2003
The Istanbul Bombings.
2004 June
A series of attacks on Jewish cemeteries in Wellington,New Zealand.
2004 September
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, a part of the Council of Europe, called on its member nations to “ensure that criminal law in the field of combating racism covers anti-Semitism” and to penalize intentional acts of public incitement to violence, hatred or discrimination, public insults and defamation, threats against a person or group, and the expression of anti-Semitic ideologies. It urged member nations to “prosecute people who deny, trivialize or justify the Holocaust”. The report was drawn up in wake of a rise in attacks on Jews in Europe. The report said it was Europe’s “duty to remember the past by remaining vigilant and actively opposing any manifestations of racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and intolerance… Anti-Semitism is not a phenomenon of the past and… the slogan ‘never again’ is as relevant today as it was 60 years ago.” ([3])
2005
A group of 15 members of the State Duma of the Russian Federation demands that Judaism and Jewish organizations be banned from the country. In June, 500 prominent Russians demand that the state prosecutor investigate ancient Jewish texts as “anti-Russian” and ban Judaism. The investigation was launched, but halted among international outcry.
2005 December
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad widens the hostility between Iran and Israel by denying the Holocaust during a speech in the Iranian city of Zahedan. He made the following comments on live television: “They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets.” Continuing, he suggested that if the Holocaust had occurred, that it was the responsibility of Europeans to offer up territory to Jews: “This is our proposal: give a part of your own land in Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to them [the Jews] so that the Jews can establish their country.”
2006-2007 - Today, with their paper in 2006, and their book just released, Dr’s. Walt and Mearsheimer make the following claims:
1 )AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress
2) The Jewish power derives in part from the influence Jewish voters have on presidential elections. Despite their small numbers in the population (less than 3 percent), they make large campaign donations to candidates from both parties. The Washington Post once estimated that Democratic presidential candidates “depend on Jewish supporters to supply as much as 60 percent of the money.”
3) The media is a tool for the forces in 1), and is manipulated by those forces

In 2007 we have come full circle back to precisely the conspiracy theory quality of claims made in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

2007 Louis Farrkhan
Farrakhan, known for his frequent association and comparison of whites with devils, said in an ABC interview with Martin Bashir on March 9, 2007 that he would refrain from using such rhetoric. Despite this, Farrakhan used this association to great extent later that month in Mosque Maryam in Chicago, including in one fierce declaration where he stated: “Do you know some of these satanic Jews have taken over BET? They got BET. They got our hair product people. They got Motown. Everything that we built, THEY got it. But the mind of Satan now is running the record industry. Running the movie industry. Running television.”[

Farrakhan has alleged that Jewish distributors blocked a major urban economic renewal initiative in 1985 he had championed which was dubbed “P.O.W.E.R.” for People Organized Working for Economic Rebirth. The initiative called for a joint enterprise of businesses and organizations, owned or run by Black people, to produce and distribute a line of cosmetics and toiletries sold under the Clean & Fresh (now defunct) label. Major haircare companies, including Johnson Products Co., backed out of the initiative fearing it could lead to accusations of anti-Semitism.[48] Johnson Products owner George E. Johnson, Sr. maintained that his company’s distributors told him that any dealings with Farrakhan’s P.O.W.E.R. project would lead to having his own products boycotted. “We knew we could not offend our distribution channels,” a Johnson spokesman Dorothy McConner said. “When I saw that,” Farrakhan said, “I recognized that the Blackman will never be free until we address the relationship between Blacks and Jews.”[ In 1984, after returning from a visit to Libya Farrakhan delivered a sermon that was recorded by a Chicago Sun Times reporter. A transcript from part of the sermon was published in the New York Times:
Toward the end of that portion of his speech that was recorded, Mr. Farrakhan said: “Now that nation called Israel never has had any peace in 40 years and she will never have any peace because there can be no peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name.”

2007 – 2008 Former Genl Merrill McPeak, Military affairs adviser to Obama
The interviewer asked McPeak: “So where’s the problem? State? White House?”
McPeak replied: “New York City. Miami. We have a large vote — vote, here in favor of Israel. And no politician wants to run against it.”
Translation (as if it’s needed): Jews — who put Israel over every American interest — control America’s policy on the Middle East. And McPeak has the audacity to accuse Bill Clinton of McCarthyism.
McPeak also claims that a combination of Jews and Christian Zionists are manipulating U.S. policy in Iraq in dangerous and radical ways:

2008 Jeremiah Wright
revealed :

Rev. Jeremiah Wright says “Jews” are keeping him from President Obama

“THEM JEWS AIN’T GONNA LET HIM TALK TO ME”

Wright told a seminar he taught at the University of Chicago that Jews control the flow of worldwide information and oppress blacks in Israel and in the United States.

ALL THIS YEAR:

USA
Sept 9th, 2011:
ESPN has yanked fantasy football leagues with anti-Semitic names from its website after a complaint from the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Among the offensive names: “Jews are Immoral,” “Jews are Terrible” and “Jews love pennies.” ESPN moved quickly to remove them once they were pointed out by the Jewish human rights organization this week.


Holland 2011:

Dutch journalist, Paul Andersson Toussaint: “Antisemitism in Holland is again salonfähig”. This word means socially acceptable.

Sixty percent of Dutch Jews are ready to pack up and leave the country. The cause is a boom of Islamic antisemitism in the famous multicultural Netherlands.

The list of Dutch victims is dramatic: from the killing of the anti-Islamist political leader Pim Fortuyn to the persecution of the Somali dissident Ayaan Hirsi Ali to the murder of the director Theo Van Gogh, condemned to death for his film “Submission,” a denunciation of the crimes of Muslim theocracy. Fortuyn’s successor, Geert Wilders, has lived under 24-hour police protection for many years. Now the Dutch Jews are ready to flee Holland.

Poland
August 10, 2011 – Orla – “Jews to the gas,” “Jude raus”, “All of Poland for the Poles,” and “White power” were spray-painted on a historic synagogue.

Argentina
May 9, 2011 – Buenos Aires – The director of an Orthodox Jewish school was attacked in front of the door of the school. An unknown man approached the school director while screaming “Jew… Jew” and hit him with an Iron bar.

March 18, 2011 – Buenos Aires – Anti-Semitic insults and threats were aired in a Crónica TV live broadcast of the official event of the commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attack against the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires.

Belgium
February 22, 2011 – Antwerp – A Jewish man riding a bicycle was punched in the face. When he asked the attacker why he hit him, the assailant said, “Because you’re a Jew.”

March 1, 2011 – Antwerp – When three Orthodox Jews entered a café, the barman shouted at them, “No Jews.” When they insisted that he repeat his comment, he said the café was closed, despite numerous clients being served.

Canada
August 4, 2011 – Toronto – A swastika with the words “Islam will rule” was spray painted on the exterior of the Beth Tikvah synagogue.
January 15, 2011 – Montreal – Vandals hurled rocks through the windows of five synagogues and a Jewish day school

France
June 20, 2011 – Paris – A 40-year-old Jewish man was attacked by two assailants who grabbed his bag with his tallit (prayer shawl) and tefillin (phylacteries). The attackers punched and kicked him in the head and body, while shouting anti-Semitic insults. The victim suffered deep bruises on his face, head lacerations that required suturing, and a fractured wrist.

June 18, 2011 – Villeurbane – A 21-year-old identifiably Jewish man was assaulted in a suburb of Lyon. He was accosted by an individual who said, “turn around and go back, you son-of-a-bitch Jew.” The attacker left, then returned with a hammer and hit the victim on the head. A dozen other assailants joined in, kicking the victim and hitting him with a nightstick. The victim was hospitalized with head and other injuries.

May 7, 2011 – Marseilles – An 11-year-old Jewish girl on her way to a synagogue was accosted by a teenager who demanded to know if she was Jewish. The assailant threatened the girl with a knife and reportedly said, “You are going to dirty meeting.” Another teenager rescued the girl, who took refuge inside the synagogue.

May 7, 2011 – Marseilles – Three Jewish boys were beaten during a soccer match by a dozen attackers, who shouted “dirty Jews, we’re going to f—- your corpses.” One boy sustained a serious eye injury; the other two were only slightly injured.

May 7, 2011 – Nancy – A Jewish school was vandalized with anti-Semitic slogans and, evidence at the scene suggested, attempted arson. Minister of Education Luc Chatel denounced the attack as an attack on France.

April 7, 2011 – Lyon – A 21-year-old Jewish student was shot four times with a pellet gun in an attack involving two unidentified assailants. The incident started when one of the perpetrators asked the student’s name. After he responded, the perpetrator reportedly said, “You don’t look like an Antoine, you look like a Jew, you’re definitely a Jew.” When the victim confirmed he was Jewish, one of the assailants shot him. The student was also beaten on his head and body with the butt of the gun. He was hospitalized with wounds to the head, neck, abdomen, and arm.

March 19, 2011 - Garges-lès-Gonesse – A rock was thrown through a window of a synagogue during an evening Purim celebration.

March 17, 2011 – Pont de Heruy – A 15-year-old Jewish boy was beaten by a group of about a dozen teenagers. The attackers threw him to the ground and beat him while yelling anti-Semitic insults.

Germany
March 30, 2011 – Aachen – A swastika was spray-painted on the synagogue.
January 24, 2011 – Goshen – A country house owned by an identifiably Jewish man was the target of an arson attack. A Star of David had been painted on the wall, together with the word “Out,” and police found evidence of arson.

Greece

May 15, 2011 – Volos — “Jews you will die” and “Jewish (expletive), the gallows are coming” were among numerous anti-Semitic threats scrawled on the Volos synagogue and Jewish community center. Ultra-nationalist slogans, “Greece,” and crosses were also spray-painted on the synagogue’s exterior walls.

February 8, 2011 – Athens - Mikis Theodorakis, the composer of “Zorba the Greek,” said in a television interview that he is an “anti-Semite and anti-Zionist.”


Hungary

January 23, 2011 – Marcali – Three teenagers toppled 75 tombstones in a Jewish cemetery and admitted to police that they were “showing off” for one another. Prime Minister Orban’s spokesman condemned the incident, saying, “vandalism triggered by anti-Semitism” is “offensive to the Hungarian Jewish community and to all Hungarians.” He added that “the government condemns vandalism and will punish such acts.”

Netherlands

May 14, 2011 – Leek – “C18,” a neo-Nazi slogan, and a swastika were spray-painted on the door of a Jewish school, which also houses a museum to the Jews of Leek who were deported and murdered during the Holocaust.

February 10, 2011 – Amsterdam – During an interfaith walk by two rabbis, two Muslim scholars, a bishop and a pastor in an area where several anti-Semitic incidents have occurred, a young man made a Hitler salute and yelled, “Cancerous Jews.”


Poland

August 10, 2011 – Orla – “Jews to the gas,” “Jude raus”, “All of Poland for the Poles,” and “White power” were spray-painted on a historic synagogue.

Russia

July 11, 2011 – Moscow – Following the conviction of 12 neo-Nazis for murdering at least 20 non-Slavic people (mostly from Central Asia and the Caucasus), six Molotov cocktails were thrown at a Moscow synagogue. The synagogue did not catch fire and no one was injured.

January 31, 2011 - St. Petersburg – Swastikas, anti-Semitic slogans, and threats were spray-painted on the gate and wall of the Jewish community center. The logo of a neo-Nazi group, NSWP, was also drawn.

Serbia

February 28, 2011 – Belgrade - On a popular reality TV show, Serbian pop star Maja Nikolic said, “I don’t like Jews.” The Minister of Justice denounced the hate speech and the Public Prosecutor has opened an investigation.

Switzerland

February 23, 2011 - Lausanne – Upon leaving a synagogue, a rabbi’s assistant was attacked by three individuals. The assailants asked if he was Jewish. When he responded positively, the three shouted anti-Semitic epithets, beat him with their fists and kicked him. Passers by intervened and called the police, who managed to arrest two of the assailants.

UK

January 29, 2011 – Manchester - The head of the National Union of Students had to be led to safety by police from a tuition fees rally he had been due to address after being surrounded by protesters chanting anti-Semitic insults at him.

Venezuela

June 7, 2011 – Caracas – Anti-Semitic graffiti, including the words “Live Palestine, Death to Zionism” and an image of a crossed-out Star of David, was spray-painted on the main Sephardic synagogue. The incident occurred during a pro-government march that passed through the synagogue. Some marchers shouted, “Here are the Jews, the ones who kill the Palestinian people, the ones who take the Zionist war around the world.”


Key figures now openly express ideas whose result, intended or not imbues in the uninformed or partly informed that there is now, as there was storied in medieval times, as there was publicized throughout the first half of the 20th century, the belief in an inchoate wordless conspiracy among the Jewish people to control others by proxy, wherever the Jewish peoples are.


Anti –Semitism, more disguised, more clothed in ‘old odd ends’ is villainy just the same, and it is alive today, just as much as it was for those Jews accused of poisoning the wells, while spreading the Black Death

#
A Washington Post Sunday
Magazine Picture
David Duke, former Louisiana Rep and Ali Ramini of Iran at the Holocaust Denial Conference in Teheran
Jews attacked during the crusades
Stained Glass Windows: Church and Synagogue (Ecclesia and Synagoga) stained glass windows in the Elisabeth Church in Marburg, Germany. Depicts the Church as triumphant, the Synagogue as blind and fallen
Illustration of a Jew poisoning the Christian water supply by dropping some potion into the well.
The first victims of the religious intolerance of the king were the Jews who were often the bankers of the kingdom. Since it was, in theory, prohibited to the Christians, the Church condemned any financial transaction comprising the payment of interest. The miniature shows a Jewish money lender who wears a yellow witch’s hat. He counts gold coins and gives them in a bag to a Christian. The closed door, on the left, symbolizes the clandestinity of the act.
Jewish woman with yellow badge.
Twelfth Century dress of a commoner (left), a Jew (middle), and a knight (right). Note the obligatory pointed hat that is part of the Jew’s attire. From The History of Costume, By Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880, Plate #15d - Twelfth Century
LUTHER:…In truth, the Jews, being foreigners, should possess nothing, and what they do possess should be ours. For they do not work, and we do not give them presents. Nonetheless, they keep our money and our goods and have become our masters in our own country and in their Dispersion. When a thief steals ten guldens, he is hanged; but when a Jew steals ten barrels of gold through his usury, he is prouder than the Lord himself! He boasts of it and strengthens his faith
Map of Jewish expulsions and resettlement areas in Europe. 1100-1500.
IMAGE :POPE PAUL IV Following the crusades the Church formulated a set of canonical statutes that in effect forcefully segregated and further degraded Jews. In the past, Jews had lived in their own compact neighborhoods both for reasons of religion and ethnic solidarity. The notion that Jews had to live segregated lives—usually in the most decrepit areas of the towns—and were prohibited from living among Christians first appeared in the Third Lateran Council (1179). Measures were passed in the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) and further elaborated in the Council of Basel (1434) that required the Jews to wear distinctive clothes, a conical hat, a “Jew badge,” and a yellow circle symbolic of their betraying Christ for gold.
In 1555 Pope Paul IV, in his bull Cum nimis absurdum, put into effect statutes segregating the Jews and compelled them to live in their own ghetto (a term borrowed from Venetian practice) on the left bank of the Tiber. The practice spread, and throughout many parts of Europe Jews came to be immured behind ghetto walls—a condition that they endured until the nineteenth century and that was renewed by the Nazis… .Powerless, segregated, circumscribed to despised occupations, stigmatized and demonized, the Western European Jew had become a pariah in practice as well as in theory
Pope Gregory orders the Talmud to be burned A.D. 1239 after a disputation. Panel - Pedro Berruguete, 15th century. Note the non-heretical book floating above the fire.
Voltaire : “In short, we find in them only an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred of every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched. “ During the Enlightenment
Rose Schneiderman, whose singular labor efforts change America after the Triangle factory fire
Jonas Salk, destroyer of polio
For a full completely sourced, electronic, hyperlinked bibliography, email me

Recent comments

Blog comments powered by Disqus