Anti Semitism In The Roman Era

What is anti-semitism? Anti-semitism is primarily known as hostility to or prejudice against Jews. Anti-semitism first presented itself as early as the Roman era. It all started when Jesus was put to death by the Roman authorities. However the Roman gospel accounts of the crucifixion of Jesus was blamed on the Jews. All Jews were blamed for Roman actions, and this was the start of anti-semitism. Soon after the the crucifixion, Roman armies demolished the temple in Jerusalem, and jews were kicked out of the area and forced to live as the minority. Slightly later, by the 5th Century, Christianity had become the majority religion in the Roman Empire. Many, if not all churches in this era portrayed Jews as “Unwilling to accept the word of god”. Some Churches even
Radical Christian soldiers set off to take the holy land from the Muslims. Throughout their journey to the holy land they slaughtered thousands of Jews leaving the religion hanging by a thread. Antisemitism showed its face slightly later in history. During the middle ages Christians persecuted Jews as they were seen as doers of evil sent by the devil. Then in 1348 when the black plague hit the first assumption made was that it was created, and sent by the Jews. This theory continued to evolve as more and more stereotypes began to build on itself eventually lead to a rumor that Jews would use the blood of sacrificed Christian children as an ingredient in their potions to create disease, which they would release onto the innocent Christian people. Several hundred years later in the middle of the 18th century a new party was founded in Germany. This was a far right (Nationalist) party that called themselves the Nazi Party. They believed that in order for Germany to rise up to its prior state of glory, that they had to create a perfect race. They believed that the Jews were responsible for the failure of WWI hence they were not part of the perfect