41845358-Antisemitism

CHAPTER 1
THE TRIAL AND
DEATH OF JESUS:
THE MYTH OF “CHRIST KILLERS”
AND THE “CRIMINAL PEOPLE”
Behold we journey a long way to seek the idolatrous shrine and to take vengeance
upon the Muslims. But here are the Jews dwelling among us, whose ancestors killed
him and crucified him groundlessly. Let us take vengeance first upon them. Let us
wipe them out as a nation; Israel’s name will be mentioned no more.
—A chronicler of the first crusade, 1095–1099 1
It is true, as the laws declare, that in consequence of their sin [of rejecting and crucifying
Jesus] the Jews were destined to perpetual servitude, so that sovereigns of states
may treat Jewish goods as their own property.
—St. Thomas Aquinas, 1274 2
As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic
Church had adopted for 1500 years.
—Chancellor Hitler to Bishop Berning, April 1933 3
It is not just a matter of deportation. You will not die there of hunger and disease.
They will slaughter all of you there, old and young alike, women and children, at
once—it is the punishment that you deserve for the death of our Lord and Redeemer,
Jesus Christ—you have only one solution. Come over to our [Catholic] religion, and I
will work to annul the decree.
—Bishop Kmetko’s reply to Rabbi Ungar, who asked him to intervene
with the head of state, Monsignor Tiso, to prevent the deportation
of Jews from Slovakia in 1943 4