| I have to admit that I don't know a lot about anti-semitism before the C20th. This is partly due to the fact that I don't understand it, either at the emotional or theoretical level. Being of Indian Sikh stock, the "history" has not been passed down to me, and the Christian/Judaic antipathy is not my "genes".
However, discrimination is something that I understand, and thus the Jews are, to me, one of many groups who have suffered at the hands of another group. That isn't to say that I don't recognise the enormity of the crimes committed against them but I simpy have difficulty differentiating it from the crimes of slavery, imperialism, the treatment of the poor in industrial societies etc.
NOTE: I am talking about the pre-C20th, and NOT including the Holocaust which was, obviously, one the greatest crimes against humanity.
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