If one looks at early New Testament times, when the Christian church was comprised mostly of lineal Jews and gentile proselytes who had come first to the Jewish faith, a different story emerges. To choose to be a Christian and to preach it was often viewed, frankly, as a killing offense, even though these Christians are not recorded as ever having put the sword to their nonbelieving Jewish counterparts. Such out of character behavior on part of the church was to come later, when the church had become virtually all gentile.
Well, how about the last 1000 years?
Hence the bitter criticism of such as Bloom for writing books like Postville that have the effect of stirring things up
GIVE ME A FREAKIN BREAK.
He tried to whip up anti-Semitism in a small town and then he whined because the Jews didn't send him champagne and chocolates. That's not exactly the Theo Van Gogh treatment.
As a token of peace ("live in peace with all men, as much as it depends on you") I will ask my potentially inflammatory comments be deleted from this thread.