Thank you for sharing these reflections…

You’ve begun with a world-against-Jews narrative, where Jews have always been unfairly and unaccountably attacked by almost everyone, yet have survived and succeeded due to natural talents or the grace of God…

Do you really think history is that simple, Rusty?

You rightly mention Christians as haters of Jews. When it comes to sustained antagonism against Jews over centuries and millennia, the record is held by historical Christianity, also called Christendom.

Yet, Christendom was seldom, if ever, as intolerant toward Jews as it was towards other religious minorities, including Pagans and Gnostics.

Have you heard of the Theodosian Code?

It’s the system of laws that emerged after the conversion of the Roman Empire. It prescribed the death penalty for almost every form of religious dissent, except Judaism.

Maybe that’s why Judaism survived as a organised religion in predominantly Christian Europe while Gnosticism and Paganism did not.

You also mention “the Muslims” as enemies of the Jews. No doubt some Muslims have been.

But are you aware that Muslim leaders invited Jews to return to Jerusalem, after they’d been banished from that city by the Romans and the Byzantines?

Did you know that Jews and Muslims fought side by side against Christian crusaders, for instance at the Siege of Haifa in 1099?

Enough for now.