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The Romans weren't particularly antisemitic, unless you define antisemitic as "opposing Jewish interests." There was a lot of bad blood between them and the Jew
by octopoc 3y ago
The Romans weren't particularly antisemitic, unless you define antisemitic as "opposing Jewish interests." There was a lot of bad blood between them and the Jews in that sense.
In one of the Jewish-Roman wars, Kitos War[1], here's what happened:
> 32 Meanwhile the Jews in the region of Cyrene had put one Andreas at their head and were destroying both the Romans and the Greeks. They would cook their flesh, make belts for themselves of their entrails, anoint themselves with their blood, and wear their skins for clothing. Many they sawed in two, from the head downwards. Others they would give to wild beasts and force still others to fight as gladiators. In all, consequently, two hundred and twenty thousand perished. In Egypt, also, they performed many similar deeds, and in Cyprus under the leadership of Artemio. There, likewise, two hundred and forty thousand perished. For this reason no Jew may set foot in that land, but even if one of them is driven upon the island by force of the wind, he is put to death. Various persons took part in subduing these Jews, one being Lusius, who was sent by Trajan. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitos_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitos_War
[2] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10890/10890-h/10890-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10890/10890-h/10890-h.htm
It's not intellectually honest to mention Roman "antisemitism" and not mention that the Jews were very deliberately genocidal. They were absolutely not just innocent victims.