On 18th July 1290 King Edward I expelled the Jews from England. ibid.
Spain: the torture and burning of thousands did nothing to ease the paranoia. ibid.
From 1516 Venice’s Jews were forced to live in a small district ... The gates were locked at night, and a new word was born: ghetto. ibid.
Spinoza ... was cast out of Amsterdam’s community of Jews. Simon Schama, The Story of the Jews III: A Leap of Faith
[Moses] Mendelssohn: the prophet of the Jewish Enlightenment died in 1786. ibid.
Those children would go on to become captains of the new industries. ibid.
Where the Rothschilds went, other wealthy Jews followed. ibid.
Hertzel: whether it was possible still to live the Enlightenment Dream here in the German world. ibid.
Wassily Kandinsky – who was also ripping up the rulebook with his abstract art. ibid.
Eastern Europe was once home to more than five million Jews, the largest population of Jews in the world. They were the Ashkenazi. Simon Schama, The Story of the Jews IV: Over the Rainbows
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Hasidism has returned to the land of its birth. ibid.
Hasidism is still a cult of ecstatic communion. ibid.
Most of the new wave of Jewish immigrants pouring into New York Harbor ended up just streets away from the boat. ibid.
The sweat-shop socialism of the lower east side. ibid.
A loss for which there are no words: Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Memorial Day. Everybody standing ... It’s still heartbreaking. Simon Schama, The Story of the Jews V: Return
Half the Jews in the world live here in Israel. Six million people. ibid.
Blue plaque London W2: Jewish Worker’s Bund Leader Representative to the Polish Parliament in Exile – Szmul Artur Zygielbojm 1895-1943 Took His Life in Protest at the World’s Indifference to Nazi Extermination of the Jews. ibid.
An historic pledge freely given by its political leaders – the Balfour Declaration. ibid.
The Jews weren’t the only ones being promised miracles. ibid.
The UN recommended partition. ibid.
Jews were treated with growing intolerance. Dr Robert Bartlett, Inside the Medieval Mind III: Belief, BBC 2008
Hostility towards Jews was fuelled by an increasingly intolerant Church and State. ibid.
They wouldn’t return until the time of Oliver Cromwell. ibid.
The Jews became the chief source of credit for the King and his Barons ... Edward decided to expel the entire Jewish population from his realm – some two to three thousand Jews. Professor Robert Bartlett, The Plantagenets II
It was hard to believe that here in New York City people were talking about this tragedy at Ground Zero and repeating the same story over and over about the Jews and 9/11. Marc Levin
In the first public declaration on the Jewish question since the outbreak of the war, Arthur Greenwood, member without portfolio in the British War Cabinet, assured the Jews of the United States that when victory was achieved an effort would be made to found a New World Order based on the ideals of ‘justice and peace’. The New York Times October 1940, ‘New World Order Pledged to Jews’
Intolerance of the Jews was a fact of 16th Century life even in Venice, the most powerful and liberal city state of Europe. By law the Jews were forced to live in the old walled foundry or ‘Ghetto’ area of the city. After sundown the gate was locked and guarded by Christians. In the daytime any man leaving the ghetto had to wear a red hat to mark him as a Jew. The Merchant of Venice 2004 starring Al Pacino & Jeremy Irons & Joseph Fiennes & Lynn Collins & Zuleikha Robinson & Kris Marshall & Charlie Cox & Heather Goldenhersh & Mackenzie Crook & Jonh Sessions & Gregor Fisher & Ron Cook et al, director Michael Radford, opening caption
Sufferance is the badge of all my tribe. ibid. Shylock to Lorenzo
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice I iii 36
Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun,
To whom I am a neighbour and near bred. ibid. II i 1
Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ibid. III i 63
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? ibid. III i 69
Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our God is Lucifer ... And we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much alive. Harold Rosenthal
Sammy Davis junior’s conversion to Judaism doesn’t mean anything. We know that a black man can’t become a Jew and that Sammy Davis is still black. It may have been to his advantage to become converted. In reality he still remains a nigger and not a Jew. Harold Rosenthal, aide to US Senator Jacob Javits, interview 1976
My old schoolteacher was Jewish. What they call unorthodox Jew – he was a Nazi. Bernard Manning
Judaism is a horrible religion with racist origins that should not exist at all. John Strugnell, Dead Sea Scrolls team
Why are Jewish men circumcised? Because no Jewish woman will touch anything that’s not 20% off. Old Jews Telling Jokes I, Annie Korzen (born 1928)
I wasn’t very keen to go because many of my relatives from Poland had died in Auschwitz ... I was particularly keen to see Bunker 12 and 11 where the people were beaten and shot for breach of regulations because I sort of felt that you must see it all. But it turned out that the things that were far more moving were ones that I couldn’t have imagined at all: the Germans are terribly methodical, so there would be whole areas which contained nothing but old spectacles, all been very carefully collected; they weren’t the slightest use but the Germans weren’t going to throw them away. There were areas which were entirely full of human hair. There was a terrible area which was entirely full of wooden legs and crutches and artificial limbs. And the most pathetic area of all – an area which was just full of little tin chamber pots the children had come to the camp had brought with them and the Germans had collected. Well by this time I was in a pretty low frame of man. Jacob Bronowski, interview The Parkinson Show 1974
What is hateful to you do not to your neighbour: that is the whole Torah. Shammai, Jewish scholar & teacher
A strange version of vampirism, or blood drinking, is still practised to this day by many Rabbis, who suck the blood from the freshly severed foreskin of newborn babies. Chris Everard, Illuminati II
I have found that even Judaism is not a B.C. religion. It did not exist in the B.C. So when we talk about ancient Jerusalem – there was no ancient Israel. Jerusalem, yes, but no ancient Israel. Jordan Maxwell, Project Camelot Conference September 2009
In truth, even the mother of Christianity, Judaism, was awash with the worship of stones and stars. Philip Gardiner film ‘Angels, Demons and Freemasons’
According to the Halacha (Jewish Law) a gentile slave bought by a Jew should be converted to Judaism, but does not thereby become a Jew. Professor Israel Shahak
The basic tenets of our Torah and its fundamental principles are thirteen in number: The first fundamental principle is the existence of the Creator. There is a being who exists in the most perfect mode of existence, and he is the cause of the existence of all other beings. Moses ben Maimon
Today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them. Mahathir bin Mohamad, Malaysian prime minister, Islamic conference 2003
Be not blind, but open-eyed, to the great wonders of Nature, familiar, everyday objects though they be to thee. But men are more wont to be astonished at the sun’s eclipse than at his unfailing rise. Orchoth Zadikkim
Be grateful for, not blind to the many, many sufferings which thou art spared; thou art no better than those who have been searched out and racked by them. Orchoth Zadikkim