All true. The Bar Kochba revolt was crushed and Judaism persecuted by the Emperor Hadrian, who seems to have something of a contingent among Log Cabin Republicans. Hadrian had to be talkied out of evacuating Dacia, but ended the short two or three year occupation of Mesopotamia begun by Trajan. His famous wall in Britain replaced some earlier structures and was begun almost immediately after his mother connived to get him the job. During the six years it was under construction his relationship with the Judeans fluctuated. In 130 AD his teenaged Greek catamite drowned in the Nile, leading Hadrian to start a cult throughout the Empire to worship his dead victim of pedophilia. He probably wasn't in a good mood when Bar Kochba started his uprising. After the Roman victory, old Jerusalem was mostly leveled and renamed Aelia Capitolina.
In the years following the revolt, Hadrian discriminated against all Judeo-Christian sects, but the worst persecution was directed against religious Jews. He made anti-religious decrees forbidding Torah study, Sabbath observance, circumcision, Jewish courts, meeting in synagogues and other ritual practices. Many Jews assimilated and many sages and prominent men were martyred including Rabbi Akiva and the rest of the Asara Harugei Malchut (ten martyrs). This age of persecution lasted throughout the remainder of Hadrian's reign, until 138 C.E.Jewish Virtual Library | Ancient Jewish History: The Bar-Kokhba Revolt
In 130 CE, Hadrian visited Jerusalem, which was still in ruins from the First Roman-Jewish War of 66-73 CE. He rebuilt the city according to his own designs and renamed it Aelia Capitolina Jupiter Capitolinus after himself and the king of the Roman gods. When he built a temple to Jupiter on the ruins of the Temple of Solomon (the so-called Second Temple, considered sacred by the Jews), the populace rose up under the leadership of Simon bar Kochba (also given as Shimon Bar-Cochba, Bar Kokhbah, Ben-Cozba, Cosiba or Coziba) in what has come to be known as the Bar-Kochba Revolt (132-136 CE). Roman losses in this campaign were enormous but Jewish losses were no less significant. By the time the rebellion was put down, 580,000 Jews had been killed and over 1000 towns and villages destroyed. Hadrian then banished the remaining Jews from the region and renamed it Syria Palaestina after the traditional enemies of the Jewish people, the Philistines. He ordered a public burning of the Torah, executed the Jewish scholars, and prohibited the practice and observance of Judaism.Hadrian by Joshua J. Mark | published on 02 September 2009 | Ancient History Encyclopedia