Good write up.
Some interesting facts.
The point I was trying to make, is that historically, the hatred for Jews is nothing new in western (Christian / European) cultures. Even in the US it was present until WWII, after which it became taboo.
Some of the VERY early settlers in the colonies were....POTUGUESE Jews who had first fled to South America, from Europe, due to the Inquisition and when the Spanish took over great swaths of South America, they fled to the North American colonies to escape the enforced INQUISITION yet again. They were NOT poor and were NOT treated badly here.
Some OF THEIR DESCENDANTS helped to finance and fight in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION!
I goofed and left out a word in that damned Russian book which Henry Ford, Edison, and Woodrow Wilson and other such vile people LOVED and disseminated. It's actually: THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION. Look it up...it's horrific and what Hitler later used and upped the ante on.
Massive anti-Semitism was really NOT all that widely spread ( outside of the South after the Civil War and the rise of the KKK ) in this nation.
Here's yet another historical tidbit that is not widely known now......
During and after WW I, Hungarian and German shops ( the nations we fought and beat ) and goods, made and/or sold by American citizens ( even those with German last names, whose families had been American Citizens since the colonies became America ) were attacked/closed down/had to rename certain products. What everyone now calls DANISH PASTRY is NOT in any way, shape, manner nor form Danish! It's Hungarian! But Hungarian bakeries were boycotted, anyone else selling these delicious treats were boycotted, so they had a name change...."DANISH PASTRIES" from Delceral ( I am guessing at that spelling...so forgive me; I can speak some Hungarian well, but can't spell anything much in that language ), and the prune kind are LEKVAR! Spelled that word correctly. :-)
If prior to Hitler and WW II, ALL Jews were hated, then Disraeli could NEVER have been in Parliament, NEVER been one of THE best Prime Ministers of the UK!
Even the French had Jews in the military and some of whom were officers! Look up The Dreyfus Affair!
Granted, after during and after the French Revolution, a nutty French priest, who had fed to England, wrote a pamphlet or book claiming that it was the Masons and Jews who caused the French revolution, which is utter and complete nonsense! Louis' brother was a high mucky muck in the Masons and he didn't cause it and he was NOT a Jew.
I can give more facts, but I've delved pretty far into the weeds as it is, so shall stop.
I've always LOVED history, so I know this stuff; however, most of what I posted was also once taught in school...some of it in the 5th grade!