This article and the ideas it puts forward are ridiculously oversimplified. Since the Roman form of Christianity spread throughout Europe nearly two thousand years ago, Christians were encouraged by the church to hate Jews as the murderers of the Messiah.
The influence of Muslims upon both the RCC and the Europeans who embraced them in the name of enlightenment and progressiveness a thousand years ago has made European hatred of all things 'Jewish' that much worse.
Why else would FRANCE bear the honor of being the first country to force Jews to wear the yellow badge A THOUSAND YEARS AGO, if European hatred of Jews was not perpetuated among the peasants by the state: the Holy Roman Emporor, who happened to be French?
Roman form of Christianity? What other kind of Christianity was there back then, since Rome ruled the civilized world, including Israel, when Christianity was formed, and a Roman Procurator named Pilate ordered Jesus put to death because the angry mob of Jews demanded it? After the Jews arrested Jesus and marched Him off to Caiaphus for a kangaroo "trial", the Jews then dragged Him off to King Herod, who also condemned Him. Next, the Jews marched Jesus off to Pilate to have Him crucified. On at least five occassion, (according to two gospels), Pilate vainly tried to save Jesus from the Jews. He had Him whipped, hoping that would appease the angry mob. He pleaded with the Jews that Jesus "had done nothing to deserve death". Pilate even tried to barter Jesus for Barabbas on the annual day of pardon for a prisoner; but the Jews demanded Barabbas instead. "His blood be upon us and our children", the Jews shouted, (Mathew 27:25). Now this is recorded history, in the gospels. I don't believe for a second that the "Roman form" of Christianity preached hatred for the Jews. I think they just weren't as afraid of the truth as you'd like them to have been. Actually, the "Roman form" of Christianity always taught Christians to "love thy neighbor", and to "pray for thine enemies", and to "forgive seventy times seven times", as Jesus taught. The early Christians were, in fact, all of Jewish ancestry. The first recorded hatred and persecution was that of Jews, (and Romans), persecuting and killing the Christians. The "Roman form" of Christians, were, infact, driven underground in Israel, to worship in hidden places, due to persecution by the Jews, as Saul of Tarsus, (St. Paul), records in "Acts". In Rome the Christians retreated into the Catacombs to worship, due to the persecution. And when you actually take the time to read what the Saints and early bishops of the "Roman form" of Christianity were teaching, you will see that never did they teach anyone to harm Jews. And never did they teach hatred for Jews. They taught the truth, that the Jews put the Messiah to death, (in the physical sense, as they did all the Prophets), and that the Jews rejected the Messiah. This is not hatred, it is historical fact. It is simple truth. But never, ever was harm or reprisals agaisnt Jews taught by the "Roman form" of Christianity. What some individual Christians may have done to Jews, (and vice versa), has nothing to do whatsoever with Church teaching, no matter how many revisionsist "historians" try to make it seem otherwise.