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Babylon destroyed the temple in Jerusalem, and captured Judea and 10,000 Jewish families.
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The first case of sanctioned forced baptism of Jewish people. Emperor Heraclius violates the Codex Theodosianus, which protected them from forced conversions.
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The Jewish community of Kairouan, Tunisia is forced to choose between conversion and expulsion.
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All the Jews of Norwich, England found in their houses were slaughtered, except a few who found refuge in the castle.
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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.
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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..." -
Johann Andreas Eisenmenger writes his Entdecktes Judenthum ("Judaism Unmasked"), a work denouncing Judaism and which had a formative influence on modern antisemitic polemics.
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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.
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Outbreak of antisemitism in United States, led by Ku Klux Klan.
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Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
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The Holocaust,about 6 million Jews, including about 1 million children, systematically killed by Nazi Germany.
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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.
