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The Talmud(s) are replete with teaching hatred toward Christ and treating 'goyim' with utter contempt. We shouldn't be surprised when orthodox Jews spit on Christians in Israel. Orthodox Jews are modern day Pharisees.

Hatred toward Jews because they are Jews is as bad as Jews hating Christians because they are Christian. Spare me the selective outrage!

>> Hatred toward Jews because they are Jews is as bad as Jews hating Christians because they are Christian. Spare me the selective outrage <<

Excellent point. It's like the double standard when they constantly whine about how "church leaders in Italy did not "speak out" against the Holocaust and condemn Hitler at the time he was in power. They want to "investigate" why that is, to see if we "covered up" anything.

Going by that standard, I have to wonder why leading Jewish Rabbis in the Roman Empire did not "speak out" against Christians being throw to the lions and loudly demand Nero and the rest of the Roman Emperors stop doing it.

What's that, you say? Doing so wouldn't have stopped any Christians from being executed, but it WOULD have caused the Roman Empire to promptly retaliate against the Jewish synagogues, close them down, expel their rabbis, and persecute THEM for questioning the regime?

Gosh, I still wonder why church leaders did not "speak out" against Hitler! It's a mystery!

The tone of the author isn't "selective outrage", it's merely academic recounting.

The article (did you even read it?) is very specific about what some pretty key founders of Protestantism (Martin Luther) had to say about the Jews. It's pretty harsh.

I'm not an expert on the Talmud, I read a book of short excerpts from it. Perhaps there is some anti-Christian sentament in it, but the core of the Talmud was written in Babylon in the period around 200 B.C. There wasn't a big Christian population there, so I don't know if what you are saying is correct. Also given the overwhelming size of the Talmud and the number of authors it contains (hundreds) I'm not sure even if you can find an isolated quote it's comprable in importance to (for instance) Martin Luther's ranting about the Jews at length, and writing an entire treatese on them (which was published and widely read in the period). After all millions and millions of Americans self-describe as "Lutherans".

Also, the very worst sort of disreputable anti-Semites often make up lying quotes and attribute them to Jewish sources. This is the sort of "every day meme warfare" that one sees on Twitter (X) and Gab. (The famous quote attributed to Voltaire, but actually written by a 20th century White Supremacist is the signature example) A complete unabridged set of the Babylonian Talmud. (There is also the Jerusalem Talmud, which is not pictured).

If you have read even a fraction of this, I salute you!