Malcolm Douglas wrote:
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> I'm grateful to Bruce for the link he quoted (and for the caveat!) Salutary
> to see that there are still people out there who will grasp at any
> opportunity (even if it be eight centuries or more old) of spreading hatred.
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> Malcolm
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That website at my click-on notes that the supposed ritual
murders stopped after the expulsion of the Jews from England, 1290,
but notes that they started in 1144, after the 1st Crusade.
Quoting from Johnathon Riley-Smith, 'The Oxford History of the
Crusades', 1999, p. 66, "One related conequence [of the 1st Crusade] was
a drastic change in Christian-Jew relations within the West, the pogroms
of 1096 testifying to a new, persecuting attitude that soon established
itself at the heart of western culture." As he notes elsewhere that
didn't happen in the East.
Nothing like a few good blood libels to justify the pogroms, after the
fact. [Riley-Smith says nothing about how very bad those pogroms were,
but that can be found elsewhere.]
Bruce Olson
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