For some reason the idea that Christians are monsters has occupied traditional Jewish thought for centuries.
It’s the traditional Jewish allergy to Christian theology which has, I must conclude, produced the very selective attention that traditional Jewish thought has paid to Christian affairs. Christians doing what Jesus Christ actually said to do to Jews and to all mankind, i.e. lavish love upon them, get dropped in the memory hole in traditional Jewish history. But pogroms, which needless to say are intensely disobedient to the New Testament, are never forgotten.
Part of it could also be that Christians actually being Christians, showing the gospel agape love, have steered Jews into being Christians too, and those Jews no longer speak ill of Christian faith. Whoever was left, those are the people who carried on the accounts of who Christians were.
The gospel is real and its blessings are real. The gospel is a stumbling block to Jews because it proclaims that God is more than Jews envisioned Him to be.
“For some reason the idea that Christians are monsters has occupied traditional Jewish thought for centuries.”
Yes, that goes hand-in-hand with 1900 years of forced conversions, murders, expulsions, kidnappings, enslavement, deprivation of basic human rights, etc.
Any more Christian love like that, and we’d be wiped out.
Now, are Christians in the USA of the 21st century different? Yes. Indeed. Wonderful people.