"The Crusades for a 1000 years"

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Corey Gil-Shuster:

Give an example of how Christianity did something against the Jews?

Religious young Jew from Jerusalem:

There were the Crusades for 1000 years and there were ... I don't know, I don't know history very well, but I know that Christianity isn't something for us.

Religious Israeli Jews: Is it okay to spit on Christians?
Corey Gil-Shuster | 14 sept. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWDSoAblHuQ

He's perfectly right on one thing: he really and truly doesn't know history very well.
/HGL

PS Some diversity of measure. Jews spat on Christians two months ago, "that was some time ago" but some would like the Crusades 1000 years ago or Inquisition 500 years ago to be an eternal reproach to Christians.

Apart from the fact that the Crusades certainly didn't kill millions of Jews and not sure if they were even targetted after the First Crusade. The people's Crusade in 1096 [4856, Jewish Anno Mundi] actually did kill some, but not without opposition from the Church:

The largest of these crusades, and the most involved in attacking Jews, was that led by Count Emicho. Setting off in the early summer of 1096, an army of around 10,000 men, women and children proceeded through the Rhine valley, towards the Main River and then to the Danube. Emicho was joined by William the Carpenter and Drogo of Nesle, among others from the Rhineland, eastern France, Lorraine, Flanders and even England.

Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, absent in southern Italy, ordered the Jews to be protected when he learned of Emicho's intent. After some Jews were killed at Metz in May, John, Bishop of Speyer gave shelter to the Jewish inhabitants. Still, 12 Jews of Speyer were slain by crusaders on May 3.[19] The Bishop of Worms also attempted to shelter Jews, but the crusaders broke into his episcopal palace and killed the Jews inside on May 18. At least 800 Jews were massacred in Worms when they refused Catholic baptism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland_massacres

PPS, while Jews were actually targetted later on, though not by Crusaders, but as a spontaneous substitute for them, in the time of Bernard of Clairvaux, I am very happy the hagiographers of the Old Testament are not called Solomon Bar Simson:

A relevant perspective on the extent of the era's antisemitism was recorded 40 years afterward by Jewish historian Solomon bar Simson. He stated that Godfrey of Bouillon swore:

to go on this journey only after avenging the blood of the crucified one by shedding Jewish blood and completely eradicating any trace of those bearing the name 'Jew', thus assuaging his own burning wrath.

That's not so much mythology as mythomania./HGL

PPPS: In time stamps 7:08—7:29 a student of the Gemara pretty much confirms at least relevant parts of what Father Pranaitis had to say about the Talmud, at least as it is interpreted by the Jews he knew./HGL