Anti-Judaism and antisemitism

Since ancient times, antisemites have spread antisemitism by promoting false claims about Judaism based on distortions of passages from the Talmud and *Midrash*. 

## Overview
Some antisemites judge the distorted passages by their own standards, and ignore the fact that the passages were written two thousand years ago by those in different cultures.

## Christianity
Christianity originated as a persecuted sect of Judaism in Roman Judea. Early Christians were mostly Jewish before non-Jewish converts became the majority and split with Judaism over theological differences. Christianity became the Roman state religion in 380 AD. Jews have been blamed for the death of Jesus since the 1st century. The blame reportedly started with descriptions about the Crucifixion in the New Testament. Another conflict between Jews and Christians was whether the Torah was still valid. 

The conflict extended to circumcision, when Paul used "Judaizers" to call Jews who demanded non-Jewish converts to circumcise. Paul believed that faith in Christ alone was enough for someone to be saved by God. is seen by many historians as having inspired antisemites to justify pogroms, expulsions and discrimination against Jews in the following 1,600 years. Such antisemites include Nazi Germany's ruler Adolf Hitler, who reprinted and circulated Chrysostom's text among Germans within Nazi territories to justify the Holocaust.

### Ignatius of Antioch
In the early decades of Christianity, Church Father Ignatius of Antioch (c. 50–117) claimed that those who followed Jewish custom were "partakers with those who killed Jesus".

### Justin Martyr
Church Father Justin Martyr (100–165) claimed that God's covenant (also known as the Old Covenant or Mosaic Covenant) with the Jews was no longer valid and that Christians had replaced them because the Jews "[had] slain the Just One [Jesus]",

### Radical traditionalist Catholics
A minority of conservative Catholics, commonly called the radical traditionalist Catholics, despite theologically opposed to Martin Luther, share similar views to him regarding Jews. According to American civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center, radical traditionalist Catholics tend to hold these views: 

## Nazi Germany
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In Nazi Germany (1933‒45), "criticism" of Judaism was a major theme in state propaganda. many of whom arrived later than the Jews due to their nomadic nature. The payment of *jizya* granted Jews the status of *dhimmi* under which they were prohibited – under the threat of execution – from criticizing any aspects of Islam, sharing Jewish ideas to Muslims or touching a Muslim woman. Jews were also not allowed to: which played a notable role in the Civil Rights Movement (1954‒68) in the United States (US).

In 1984, its leader Louis Farrakhan called Judaism a "gutter religion [...] structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit" that "abused God's name for self-defense" after meeting Mummar Gaddafi in Libya. In 1985, at an NOI meeting, Farrakhan said that the Jews deserved the Holocaust by screaming that "And don't you forget, when it's God who puts you in the ovens, it's forever!"

Over the past decades, Farrakhan made several speeches demonizing Jews and Judaism.

## New religious movements
### Black Hebrew Israelites
A similar, and equally influential, movement is the Black Hebrew Israelites (BHI). The BHI is founded on the pseudoscientific belief that African Americans are the "real descendants" of ancient Israelites. While differing in theology, the BHI and NOI are both antisemitic.

In the same article, Horn doubted Holocaust education's effectiveness based on persistent antisemitism in society,

### David Nirenberg
American historian David Nirenberg (b. 1964) held a special view about the issue. Langmuir saw the accusation of "Jews killing Jesus" as an example of anti-Judaism,

### Jules Isaac
French historian Jules Isaac (1877–1963), author of the 1948 book *Jésus et Israël*, proposed the Eighteen Points for Christian-Jewish reconciliation, which was considered by the Seelisberg Conference of Christians and Jews in 1947:

In his 1956 book *Génése de l’Anti-Sémitisme* ("Has Anti-Semitism Roots in Christianity?"), Isaac agreed that pagan antisemitism existed before Christ but made it clear:

## Related pages
* Dual-covenant theology
* Secondary antisemitism
* *The Protocols of the Elders of Zion*

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