To join the war was to be a patriot.

You loved you country, even the drafted served to die

@Amadeus elaborat.

about the jews in the middle ages?

mhm

okay

so after Roman diaspora when the Romans basically sent the Jews all over the world

@Deleted User I hope you love greece. You need to be a patriot.

the two main groups, Sephardic and Ashkenazic formed

Sephardic were in North Africa/Spain, and parts of the Middle East

Ashkenazic were in Eastern and central europe

@Iakovos I would die for my country, I suppose thats answers your question

what really began antisemitism, however

was the fact Jews are okay with usury

aka charging interest on loans

Christianity and Islam were very against that back then

and so only Jews were committing usury, and so they got a ton of money

They also made themselves very distinct from the cultures they were around, because that is how Jews are

so they dressed differently and behaved differently

that coupled with them charging interest (which no one likes)

sparked a lot of animosity towards the Jews

and the Jews were blamed for a lot of things, because they were easy scapegoats

they began being kicked out of countries left and right, which sometimes caused the economy to crash (which is pretty funny) lol

they were also notorious bankers

and clearly have not stopped

fast forward to the 1800s, there's still antisemitism, but now Jews are like "bruh, we should go to the Holy Land"

aka where Zionism comes from

so Jews began moving back to the land of Canaan and buying property there

The problem though is the old testament tells Jews to be distinct and to act different.

yeah

that's their whole thing

@Amadeus Anti-semitism was also strong in byzantine because of Theodosian

Jews are a rowdy bunch, what can I say lol

he would limit the power of jews aka to not be able to attend to some country power + making them unable to have weapons

As we would hate them for betraying the son of god

ottomans did actually treat the Jews fairly nicely though, which is pretty ironic when you see how Muslims view Jews today

Jews were using muslims back then

there are a lot of documents to read about that

lol

it was one of the reason the got exiled from spain

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