A Historical Timeline
3 BCE: Manetho,
a Hellenistic Egyptian chronicler and priest, alleges that Moses was not a
Jew.
175 BCE-165 BCE:
Antiochus IV Epiphanes sacks Jerusalem, calls Judaism " adverse to
humanity."
2 BCE:
Mnaseas, a Greek author, reports that Jews worship a donkey's
head in the Temple.
66-73 CE: First Jewish
Revolt against Romans is crushed by Vespasian and Titus Flavius.
117-138
CE: Roman emperor
Hadrian bans Judaism and crushes the revolt lead by Bar Kokhba.
170
CE: Melito
of Sardis accuses the Jews of deicide, publishing a sermon
On the Passion.
306
CE: The Council of Elvira
bans intermarriage of Christians and Jews.
315-337
CE: Constantine I
refers to Jews as the "impure beings", an "unclean sect."
325
CE:
Council of Nicaea
separates Easter from Passover to separate from the detestable Jews.
386
CE: John Chrysostom
writes eight sermons
Adversus Judaeos – “Against the Jews”.
388
CE:
A Christian mob
incited by the local bishop plunders and burns down a synagogue.
399
CE: Emperor Flavius
Augustus Honorius confiscates gold and silver from synogogues.
415
CE: Jews are accused of
ritual murder and the Church confiscates or burns synagogues.
418
CE: The first record of
Jews being forced to convert or face expulsion.
419
CE: The monk
Barsauma destroys synagogues throughout the
Eretz Israel.
429
CE: Roman Emperor
Theodosius II orders all funds raised by Jews be given to him.
439
CE: Code of Theodosius:
the first compilation of anti-Jewish laws after Constantine.
465
CE: Council of Vannes
prohibits the Christian clergy from participating in Jewish feasts.
529-559
CE: Emperor Justinian
issues laws stating that anyone not Christian is a non-citizen.
Jews
cannot testify against Christians.
The use of the
Hebrew language in worship is forbidden.
The Shema is
banned.
Some Jewish
communities are converted by force.
535
CE: Council of Clermont
prohibits Jewish judges and Jewish administrative positions.
538
CE: Third Council of Orléans prohibits Jews from appearing in the streets during Easter.
576
CE: Bishop Avitus offers
Jews a choice: accept Christianity or leave Clermont. Most leave.
587
CE: King Reccared of
Spain declares children of mixed marriages must be raised Christian.
589
CE: The Council of
Narbonne forbids Jews from chanting psalms while burying their dead.
610-620
CE: Visigothic Spain king Sisebut
prohibits Judaism. Those not baptized fled.
614
CE: Fifth Council of
Paris decrees all Jews in military or civil positions must be baptized.
615
CE: In Italy Juramentum
Judaeorum - no heretic could be believed in court against a Christian.
629
CE: Byzantine Emperor
Heraclius marches his army into Jerusalem and massacres Jews.
629
CE: Frankish King Dagobert I expels all Jews from the kingdom.
682
CE: Visigothic king
Erwig begins his reign by enacting 28
anti-Jewish laws.
692
CE: Trulan Council in
Italy forbids clergymen to employ Jewish doctors or socialize with Jews.
694
CE: 17th Council of
Toledo declares all Jewish children over age seven be raised Christian.
717
CE: Caliph Omar II passes
regulations requiring Jews to wear a special yellow garb.
722
CE: Byzantine emperor Leo
III forcibly converts all Jews to Byzantine Christianity.
807
CE: Caliph Harun
al-Rashid orders Jews to wear a yellow belt and Christians a blue belt.
820
CE: Archbishop of Lyon
declares in his essays that Jews are accursed and born to be slaves.
898-929
CE: French King
Charles the Simple confiscates & donates Jewish property to Church.
1008-1013
CE: Caliph Al-Hakim
bi-Amr Allah forces Jews wear a "golden calf" around their necks.
1012
CE: One of the first
known persecutions of Jews in Germany.
1032
CE: Abul Kamal Tumin
conquers Morocco and kills 6,000 Jews.
1050
CE: Council of Narbonne
in France forbids Christians to live in Jewish homes.
1066
CE: Jewish community of
Granada came under the riotous siege resulting in 4,000 deaths.
1096
CE: Crusaders massacre
over 5,000 Jews in European cities, most notably in Rhineland.
1107
CE: Moroccan ruler Yoseph Ibn Tashfin orders all Moroccan Jews to convert or leave.
1143
CE: 150 Jews killed in
Ham, France.
1144
CE: Jews of Norwich,
England are accused with both ritual murder and blood libel.
1189-1190
CE: Pogroms against
the Jews in London.
1171
CE: In Blois, France,
31 Jews burned at the stake for blood libel.
1180
CE: Philip Augustus of
France imprisons all Jews and demands a ransom for their release.
1190
CE: 500 Jews of York,
England are massacred after 6-day siege by departing Crusaders.
1198
CE: Saladdin's nephew
al-Malik summons all the Jews and forcibly converts them to Islam.
1215
CE: Fourth Lateran
Council required that Jews wear identifying symbols.
1222
CE: Archbishop of
Canterbury Stephen Langton forbids Jews from building new synagogues.
1235
CE: Blood libel at
Fulda, Germany.
1236
CE: Crusaders attack
Jewish communities of Anjou and Poitou killing 3,000.
1240
CE: Duke Jean le Roux
expels Jews from Brittany.
1240
CE: Pope Gregory IX puts
Talmud on trial claiming blasphemy against Jesus and Mary.
1242
CE: 24 cart-loads of
hand-written Talmudic manuscripts were burned in the streets of Paris.
1254
CE: Louis IX of France
expels the Jews from France, their property confiscated.
1267
CE: The Vienna city
council forces Jews to wear a cone-shaped head dress.
1275
CE: King Edward I of
England forces Jews to wear an indentifying Yellow badge.
1278
CE: Pope Nicholas III
requires compulsory attendance of Jews at conversion sermons.
1282
CE: Archbishop of
Canterbury, John Pectin, orders all London synagogues to close.
1283
CE: Philip III of France
causes mass migration of Jews.
1285
CE: Blood libel in
Munich, Germany results in the death of 248 Jews.
1287
CE: A mob in Oberwesel,
Germany kills 40 Jewish men.after a ritual murder accusation.
1290
CE: King Edward I of
England expels all Jews from England.
1291
CE: Philip the Fair
publishes an ordinance prohibiting the Jews to settle in France.
1298
CE: German Knight Rindfleisch leads massacres of thousands of Jews in 146 localities.
1305
CE: Philip IV of France
seizes all Jewish property and expels Jews from France.
1320
CE: Shepherds' Crusade
attacks the Jews of 120 localities in southwest France.
1321
CE:
King Henry II of
Castile forces Jews to wear Yellow badge.
1321
CE: Jews in France
falsely charged with poisoning wells and 5,000 are massacred.
1322
CE: King Charles IV
expels Jews from France.
1348
CE: European Jews are
blamed for the Black Death. 200 Jewish communities destroyed.
1348
CE: Basel: 600 Jews
burned at the stake and 140 children forcibly baptized.
1389
CE: Mob slaughters 3,000
of Prague Jews, destroys the Jewish synagogue and cemetery.
1391
CE: Violence by
Archdeacon of Ecija Ferrand Martinez results in 10,000 murdered Jews.
1399
CE: Blood libel in
Posen, Poland.
1420
CE: All Jews are
expelled from Lyons, France.
1421
CE: Persecutions of Jews
in Vienna result in 270 Jews burned at stake.
1431
CE: German Knight Saufleisch massacres Jews of Madrid on entering the city.
1435
CE: Massacre and forced
conversion of Majorcan Jews.
1463
CE: Pope Nicholas V
authorizes the Inquisition to investigate heresy among the Marranos.
1481
CE: The Spanish
Inquisition instituted.
1490
CE: The Blood libel in Laguardia, Spain, where the alleged victim became revered as a saint.
1492
CE: Ferdinand II &
Isabella expel 200,000 Jews from Spain – legend of the Wandering Jew.
1492
CE: 27 Jews burned in
Mecklenburg, Germany, accused of stabbing a consecrated wafer.
1493
CE: In Sicily
approximately 37,000 Jews are expelled.
1496
CE: Forced conversion
and expulsion of Jews from Portugal.
1498
CE: Prince Alexander of
Lithuania forces most of the Jews to forfeit their property or convert.
1506
CE: In Lisbon, Portugal,
over 2,000 marranos killed in three days.
1510
CE: Jews are expelled
from Brandenburg, Germany. 38 Jews burned at the stake in Berlin.
1516
CE: The first ghetto in
Europe established in Venice.
1543
CE: Reformer Martin
Luther leads writes a pamphlet
About the Jews and Their Lies.
"First,
to set fire to their synagogues and schools...
Second, I advise that their
houses also be razed
and destroyed... Third, I
advise that all their prayer
books and Talmudic writings be
taken from them...
Fourth, I advise that their
rabbis be forbidden
to teach henceforth on pain of
loss of life and limb...
Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct
on the highways
be abolished completely for the
Jews...
Sixth, I advise that usury be
prohibited to them,
and that all cash and treasure of
silver and gold
be taken from them, and put aside
for safe-keeping...
Seventh, I recommend putting a
flail, an ax,
a hoe, a spade, a distaff, or a
spindle into the hand
of young, strong Jews... letting
them earn their
bread in the sweat of their
brow."
1535
CE: After Spanish troops capture Tunis,
Tunisia, all the local Jews are sold into slavery.
1547
CE: Russia’s Ivan the Terrible refuses to
allow Jews to live in or even enter his kingdom.
1555
CE: 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."
1559
CE: 12,000 copies of
Talmud were burned in Milan, Italy.
1563
CE: Russian troops
capture Polotsk and Jews told to convert or die.
1590
CE: King Philip II of
Spain orders expulsion of Jews from Lombardy.
1593
CE: Pope Clement VIII
expels Jews from all Papal states except Rome and Ancona.
1614
CE: Vincent Fettmilch,
“Haman of the Jews”, leads a raid on Frankfurt Jewish community.
1615
CE: Louis XIII of France
decrees that all Jews must leave the country in one month, or die.
1624
CE: Ghetto established
in Ferrara, Italy.
1648-1655
CE: Ukrainian
Cossacks massacre 100,000 Jews in 300 Jewish communities.
1664
CE: Jews of Lvov,
Ukraine are attacked by students of Jesuit seminary – 100 die.
1670
CE: Jews expelled from
Vienna.
1711
CE: Johann Andreas Eisenmenger writes Entdecktes Judenthum ("Judaism Unmasked").
1727
CE: Catherine I of
Russia: "The Jews are to be expelled at once beyond the frontiers of
Russia."
1734-1736
CE: The Haidamaks,
paramilitary bands in Polish Ukraine, attack Jews.
1742
CE: Elizabeth of Russia
issues a decree of expulsion of all the Jews out of Russian Empire.
1744
CE: Austrian Archduchess
Maria Theresa orders: "no Jew is to be tolerated in our duchy.”
1762
CE: Rhode Island refuses tAaron Lopez and Isaac Eliezer citizenship because they are Jews.
1775
CE: Pope Pius VI issues
a severe Edict concerning the Jews and Judaism is suppressed.
1790
CE: Eleazer Solomon is
quartered for the alleged murder of a Christian girl in Grodno.
1790-1792
CE: Destruction of
most of the Jewish communities of Morocco.
1791
CE: Catherine II of
Russia confines Jews to the Pale of Settlement and imposes double taxes.
1827
CE: Compulsory military
service for Russian Jewish boys 18 years old for a period of 25 years.
1835
CE: Oppressive
constitution for the Jews issued by Czar Nicholas I of Russia.
1844
CE: Karl Marx praises
Bruno Bauer's essays that demands that the Jews abandon Judaism.
1853
CE: Blood libel in
Saratov, Russia renews of the blood libels throughout Russia.
1871
CE: Speech of Pope Pius
IX about Jews: "of these dogs, there are too many of them in Rome.”
1878
CE: Adolf Stoecker, an
anti-Semitic preacher and politician, founds the Social Workers' Party.
1879
CE: Heinrich von
Treitschke, German historian/politician, brings anti-Semitism to learned
circles.
1879
CE: Wilhelm Marr coins
the term Anti-Semitism, meaning a hatred of the Jews.
1881-1884
CE: Pogroms sweep southern Russia, propelling mass Jewish
exodus of about 2 million.
1882
CE: First
International Anti-Jewish Congress convenes
at Dresden, Germany.
1887
CE: Russia introduces
measures to limit Jews access to education, known as the quota.
1891
CE: Blood libel
persecutions against the Jews in Xanten, Germany.
1891
CE: Expulsion of 20,000
Jews from Moscow, Russia.
1893
CE: Karl Lueger
establishes anti-Semitic Christian Social Party and becomes Vienna’s
Mayor.
1894
CE: In France in which
Dreyfus, a Jew, was labeled a traitor and sent to Devil’s Island.
1899
CE: H. S. Chamberlain,
anti-Semitic author, his writings become National-Socialist ideology.
1899
CE: Blood libel
persecutions against the Jews in
Bohemia.
19th
& 20th centuries:
Catholic Church adheres to "good anti-Semitism" and "bad anti-Semitism."
1903
CE: The Kishinev pogrom:
49 Jews murdered.
1905
CE: The first appearance
of the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Russia.
1911
CE: Blood libel in Kiev.
1915
CE: The World War I
prompts expulsion of 250,000 Jews from Western Russia.
1917-1921
CE: Masses of
Jewish civilians (up to 250,000) were murdered in Russian pogroms.
1920
CE: The Jerusalem pogrom
is incited by Haj Amin Al-Husseini.
1920
CE: Bolshevik revolution
is a Jewish conspiracy for world domination.
Henry Ford prints 500,000 copies of the
"Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
and begins a series of anti-Semitic articles
in the Dearborn Independent newspaper.
1921-1925
CE: Outbreak of
Anti-Semitism in USA, lead by Ku Klux Klan.
1933-1941
CE: Persecution of
Jews in Germany rises until they are stripped of all their rights.
1935 CE: Nuremberg Laws
introduced and Jewish rights are rescinded.
1938
CE: November 9 and 10, Kristallnacht. German synagogues & businesses burned.
1938
CE: Evian Conference: 31
country refuses to accept Jews trying to escape Nazi Germany.
1939
CE: S.S. St. Louis, with
907 Jewish refugees turned away from Cuba and US, back to Germany.
1939
CE: US Congress rejects
an effort to admit 20,000 Jewish refugee children from Germany.
1940-1945
CE:
The Holocaust -
Shoah.
1996
CE: Yasser Arafat declares that Jesus of Nazareth was a
Palestinian, not a
Jew.
Today:
Worldwide anti-Semitism is being fueled by radical Islam, not only against
the Jews, but also against the Christians who refuse to bow and worship
Allah. In Islam, both Jews and Christians are considered "people of the
book" - the Bible. However,
Muslims are forbidden to
read the Bible.
Islamic historical scholars have
affirmed that “Allah” was the chief moon god among 360 gods that were worshipped
in Arabia before the time of the prophet Mohammed. Archaeologists have
uncovered ancient temples to the moon-god throughout the Middle East. The
crescent moon is the symbol of Islam. The Arabic phrase "Allahu
Akbar"
does not mean "God is great," but rather "Allah is greater" - over all
other gods including the God of the Bible.
The God of
the Bible loves the Muslim people because they too are created in the image
of God and He wants to have a loving relationship with them as well as all
of humanity. The Bible states that "God is love" and that love is
personified in his followers. It also states that those who hate
(regardless of what you call yourself religiously) do not know God,
because God is love. The Bible states that murderers will not be
allowed into heaven.
The Bible
says that Satan, the
devil, comes to steal, kill, and destroy God's creation.
The Bible calls him the great deceiver and a liar who seeks the eternal
destruction of mankind so that God cannot redeem his children back
to Himself. God wants to give everlasting life while Satan offers
only eternal death. The Bible states it is Satan's goal is to rule this
earth and raise himself high above the God who created the universe.
Abraham was
a man of faith who knew God, and it was counted unto him as righteousness
according to the Bible. He was not a man of the sword and war, but a
man of faith, obedience, and devotion to God; the same God of creation and
all humankind; the God who so loves the world that he does not want any to
perish for eternity; the God who loves us and has a plan of redemption and
restoration for
us.
Dr. Michael Brown's video discussion - "Anti Semitism"
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