Antisemitism

By Hayleyann123
  • 586 BCE

    586 BCE

    Babylon destroyed the temple in Jerusalem, and captured Judea and 10,000 Jewish families.
  • Jan 1, 632

    632

    632
    The first case of sanctioned forced baptism of Jewish people. Emperor Heraclius violates the Codex Theodosianus, which protected them from forced conversions.
  • Jan 1, 1016

    1016

    The Jewish community of Kairouan, Tunisia is forced to choose between conversion and expulsion.
  • Feb 6, 1190

    1190

    All the Jews of Norwich, England found in their houses were slaughtered, except a few who found refuge in the castle.
  • Jan 1, 1348

    1348

    European Jews are blamed for the plague in the Black Death persecutions. Charge laid to the Jews that they poisoned the wells. Massacres spread throughout Spain, France, Germany and Austria. More than 200 Jewish communities destroyed by violence.
  • Jan 1, 1543

    1543

    1543
    In his pamphlet On the Jews and Their Lies Martin Luther advocates an eight-point plan to get rid of the Jews as a distinct group either by religious conversion or by expulsion. some included:
    "...set fire to their synagogues or schools..."
    "...their houses also be razed and destroyed..."
    "...their prayer books and Talmudic writings... be taken from them..."

  • 1711

    1711
    Johann Andreas Eisenmenger writes his Entdecktes Judenthum ("Judaism Unmasked"), a work denouncing Judaism and which had a formative influence on modern antisemitic polemics.

  • 1827

    1827
    Compulsory military service for the Jews of Russia: Jewish boys under 18 years of age, known as the Cantonists, were placed in preparatory military training establishments for 25 years. Cantonists were encouraged and sometimes forced to baptize.

  • 1921

    Outbreak of antisemitism in United States, led by Ku Klux Klan.

  • 1925

    1925
    Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.

  • 1939

    The Holocaust,about 6 million Jews, including about 1 million children, systematically killed by Nazi Germany.

  • The 2016 election

    The 2016 election
    Many Anti Semitic actions took place during the 2016 election. Many antisemitic ideas were thrown around by many people on social media and in the streets during the election. Many people openly showed how they felt about Jewish people during this election.