[Prole]

"Jews are a base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth.... They are full of the "devil's feces ... which they wallow in like swine.... The synagogue was a defiled bride, yes, an incorrigible whore and an evil slut... They (Jews) should be shown no mercy or kindness, afforded no legal protection,and these poisonous envenomed worms should be drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time." - Martin Luther from "On The Jews And Their Lies"

Martin Luther argued that Jewish synagogues and schools be set on fire, their prayer books destroyed, rabbis forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated. Martin Luther also seemed to advocate their murder, writing "we are at fault in not slaying them."

Source:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8012422/The-Jews-and-their-lies-by-Martin-Luther

Show me a European following that was larger than Luther's that pro-actively advocated such racist and destructive behavior toward Jewish people.

[RegulatorCountry]

Yep, antisemitism just fell from the sky, brand new and an unheard of thing, with the advent of Martin Luther. Nobody had ever accused Jews of poisoning wells and slaughtered them or run them out and seized their property before Protestantism, nope. No exiles of every single jew from whole nations under Catholicism, either, that’s just an ugly rumor about Spain and England. /s

He learned that Jew hatred. He didn’t invent it. He was far closer to Catholicism in his reformation attempts than other Protestant Reformers. This is yet another example.