:Rosedora, that is called historical revisionism. Michael Novak is not a historian and knows nothing about history. 
 "The Jews deserve to be hanged on gallows, seven times higher than ordinary thieves...I shall give you my sincere advice: 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....Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed....Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them...If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs....  
 For the honor of God and Christ, make God see that we are true Christians. Break down, destroy their homes, deprive them of their prayer-books and Talmuds in which they teach such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy. Their rabbis must be forbidden to teach under threats of death. And whoever wishes to accept and honor venomous serpents, desperate enemies of the Lord and to be robbed, pillaged, corrupted and cursed, let him turn to the Jews. If he asks for more, he can crawl up into their arses and worship their excrement, for which Christ will reward him on the day of Judgment with the eternal fire of hell and Jews for company.  
 If I find a Jew to baptize, I shall lead him to the bridge, hang a stone around his neck, and push him into the water, baptizing him with the name of Abraham! I cannot convert the Jews. Our Lord Christ did not succeed in doing so; but I can close their mouths"Martin Luther 
 That was the sentiment of most protestants until the end of WWII.