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474 BCE
Very First Act
One of the kings courtiers said that the Jewish customs were different than theirs. The king was about to send out a decree that all the Jews will be killed. Before he sent it, the king found out that his wife, Esther, was Jewish. Haman, the courtier, was executed. Esther saved her people from this decree.
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Dec 14, 1096
First Act
Three cities that many Jews lived were attacked by France and Germany. This was considered the first true act of anti-semitism. It was the beginning of something that would last for hundreds of years.
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Dec 16, 1235
Germany
In Fulda, Germany Jews were accused of killing children as a religious ritual. The king at the time, asked Christians that were once Jews to confirm or deny these accusations. They said the accusations were false. Thereafter, every ruler that followed said that the accusations were false. -
Feb 16, 1563
Russia
In Polotsk and Lithuania, Russian troops seize Jews. They can either join Russian Orthodox Church and live or die. The Jews who chose to die were thrown into ice holes. -
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The Holocaust
Adolf Hitler puts nearly 6 millions Jews to death. A plan to dehumanize the Jewish community members. Hitler segregated Jews from everyone else by having them live in ghettos. This lead to concentration camps across multiple countries. This was one of the biggest tragedies in modern times. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007653 -
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Forced Migration
Jews were evacuated or migrated during the "Jewish exodus from Arab lands." During this time, out of the 900,000 Jews living in these countries, only 8,000 remained in 2001.
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Professor
A history professor, David Hoggan, denied the Holocaust. People do not want to believe that is actually happened, and want to convince others that it did not happen.
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Teacher
A Canadian high school teacher was "promoting hatred against an identifiable group by communicating anti-Semitic statements to his students". He told his students that Jews "created the Holocaust to gain sympathy."
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Wars?
Mel Gibson was driving under the influence. While arrested, the exclaimed, "...the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world."
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Today
The biggest population density of Jews in Sweden is the city of Malmo. The anti-semitism crime rate tripled in 2012. http://blogs.uoregon.edu/claskenf13gateway/timeline/ -
Nope
Louis Farrakhan, a religious leader for the Nation of Islam, accused Jews of being involved with the 9/11 attacks. This was an act to point the finger at Jews.
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Present Day
Students in Palestine at U.C. Irvine, were disciplined because Jewish students felt intimidated by them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antisemitism
