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Lets keep reading from the book “When Victims Rule”, chapter “3 - JEWS AND CHRISTIANITY”:
“Edward Flannery writes that
"The synagogue resented Christianity's claims and in the emerging
conflict struck the first blow. Hellenist Jewish converts to the Church
were driven from Jerusalem. [Saint] Stephen was killed, as were the two
Jameses, though James the Less was killed through the action of the high
priest, not the majority of Jews. Peter was forced out of Palestine by the
persecution of Herod Agrippa I, and Paul endured flagellations,
imprisonment, and complaints by Jews to Roman authorities, and threats
of death at Jewish hands. Barnabas' death (60 AD) at the hands of Jews in
Cypress is unanimously reported by early hagiographers." [FLANNERY,
p. 27]
By 80 AD Jewish ritual had incorporated a daily curse against Christians: "May the minim [heretics] perish in an instant; may they be effaced from the book of life and not be counted among the Just." [FLANNERY, p. 28] In 117 CE Jews were involved in the death of St. Simeon, the bishop of Jerusalem, and unrepenting Christians were massacred by Jews in the Bar Kocha revolt (132-135 AD) against the Romans.
Christians were severely persecuted under Roman rule, while Jews -- after initial revolts against Rome -- largely prospered. "Christians were subject to mounting and systematic persecution from the time of Emperor Trajan (98-117 CE) onwards," notes Robin Spiro, "The Jews, by and large, fared better than the Christians at the hands of the Romans, and retained the majority of their special privileges." [SPIRO, p. 17] As Christianity grew in later centuries, attacks, riots, pogroms, rebellions -- or whatever else one chooses to polemically label them -- were instigated by Jews against Christians in Palestine and other parts of the Old World. Simon Dubnov notes that "in 556, during bouts in the circus in Caesarea, the Samaritans, assisted by Jewish youths, attacked the Christians. The Christians were beaten soundly. Several churches were razed and Stephanus, the governor of Palestine, was killed ... In Antiocha ... in 608, the local Jews rebelled; since they predominated in numbers they killed many Christians, including the patriarch Anastasias, whose body they dragged through the city streets ... In other localities (Scytopolis, for instance) the Jews were hostile toward the Christians. During commercial transactions, they would not even accept money directly from the hands of a Christian; they had to throw their coins into water, where the Jews would then retrieve them." [DUBNOV, p. 24-25 v. 2]"
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