A Brief History of Christian Anti-Semitism by Dan Allison January 9, 1999 For sixteen hundred years, the Jewish people have been persecuted and murdered by people who worship a Jewish man as their savior: the Christians. Why did Christian anti-Semitism, a seemingly illogical belief given that Jesus himself was a Jew, develop? How did it evolve, and why has it persisted for centuries? In the Biblical gospels, despite three of the four being ostensibly written by Jews, …
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…Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994), p. 56. 26. Jeansonne, p. 34. 27. John George and Laird Wilcox, American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996), p. 38. 28. Ibid., pp. 34-35. 29. Quoted in Lindsey, p. 25. 30. Ibid., p. 111. 31. Barkun, p. 187. 32. Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt, Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed (New York: Plenum Press, 1993), p. 111 33. Abanes, p. 155. --------------------------------------------- Dan Allison lives on Sunset Beach, Florida. mailto: DrFeelgd43@aol.com Bibliography See footnotes