Whether Jews have been oppressed for the past 500 years

Thank you. The Jews HAVE been oppressed for the past 500 years. The definition of oppression is " prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. " The treatment of the Jews for the past 500 years was very unjust. It was horribly unjust. And 500 years is a long time. And I will show you how exactly they were oppressed. First-Martin Luther. A famous christian leader who objected to the teachings of Catholicism and the pope. However this man led many others in hate toward these Jews with his work entitled "the Jews and thier lies. " Here he says -- "First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians. For whatever we tolerated in the past unknowingly " and I myself was unaware of it " will be pardoned by God. But if we, now that we are informed, were to protect and shield such a house for the Jews, existing right before our very nose, in which they lie about, blaspheme, curse, vilify, and defame Christ and us (as was heard above), it would be the same as if we were doing all this and even worse ourselves, as we very well know. Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them that they are not masters in our country, as they boast, but that they are living in exile and in captivity, as they incessantly wail and lament about us before God. Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them. Fourth, I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb. " Martin Luther repeatedly led many Christians in this hatred toward Jews. These Jews were shown to be less than human--and were terrorized wherever they went. Eventually this hatred spread. Luther was the most widely read author of his generation, and within Germany he acquired the status of a prophet. [215] According to the prevailing view among historians,[216] his anti-Jewish rhetoric contributed significantly to the development of antisemitism in Germany,[217] and in the 1930s and 1940s provided an "ideal underpinning" for the Nazis' attacks on Jews. [218] During this time The term "pogrom" in the meaning of large-scale, targeted, and repeated anti-Jewish rioting, saw its first use in the 19th century, in reference to the anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire. Pogroms began occurring after the Russian Empire, which previously had very few Jews, acquired territories with large Jewish populations during 1791-1835. These territories were designated "the Pale of Settlement" by the Russian government, within which Jews were reluctantly permitted to live, and it was within them that the pogroms largely took place. Most Jews were forbidden from moving to other parts of the Empire, unless they converted to Orthodox Christianity. This is severe oppression. And it needs to be recognized. www. wikipedia. com/Martin Luther American holocaust museum www. jewishvirtuallibrary. com/Martin Luther www. wikipedia. com/pogroms Thank you