1. Anti-Semitism was rampant in Eurpoe centuries before Luther was born.
2. Luther's views were shared by a majority of his contemporaries, regardless of their religious affiliation.
3. In his later years, Luther softened his views toward Jews to the point that it would be difficult to brand him as anti-Semitic at all.
Martin Luther's antisemitic pamphlet WAS written "in his later years," and never retracted by him, even in part or degree.
Martin Luther born 1483, died 1546.
On The Jews and Their Lies WRITTEN in January of 1543, and published that same year.
Got an explanation for this? I mean I assume you don't usually just make stuff up to excuse antisemites.
BTW, your claim that "Luther's views were shared by a majority of his contemporaries" is more odious soft-pedaling of antisemitism. Antisemitism may have been common, but the vituperative extremism of Luther's pamphlet, and the draconian nature of its explicit policy proposals, stand out starkly in all of Western history up to the reign of the Nazis (how republished on often cited Luther on the subject of the Jews).