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, …showed first 75 words of 2670 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2670 total…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