Friday, August 5, 2011

Extreme Examples of Antisemitic Movements

Extreme antisemitic movements resulted in many different historical events.
Some of them are as following:

1. First Crusade of 1096


















2. The expulsion from England in 1290



















3. The Spanish Inquisition





















4. The expulsion from Spain in 1492



















5. The expulsion from Portugal in 1497


















6. The Dreyfus Affair





















7. The Holocaust by Nazi Germany

Manifestation of Antisemitism

Antisemitism has been manifested in many different ways depending upon the intensity of hatred towards Jews. Those different ways included attacks and tortures to individual or groups of Jews by the civil people/mobs, some antisemitic organizations and even the state police.

Antisemitism

Antisemitism is a word used for hatred towards or discrimination against Jews.
This is because of some reasons connected to their heritage. This hatred and discrimination is attributed to the Jewish religion and Jewish ethnicity. A person who holds such views for Jews is called antisemite. When antisemitism is at its extreme, Jews are not welcomed by a certain antisemitic society or civilization, defaming Jews to be inferior and denies to allow Jews to become part of the them.