Excuse me! but from time to time, I'm troubled by the tone of some of the posts seen on AB whenever it relates to the Jews. This thread is an example... and this one in particular "...Whilst true the Jews have been persecuted over the years, they do have a tendency to bring it on themselves..."
The underlying message of that sentence may be entirely unintentional, but, considering the millions on millions of men, women and children that have died horrifically only because they were Jews is one of the great mysteries of human history. Not one other culture or group of people have suffered so much.
Not only were some six million Jews, including 1.5 million children, systematically exterminated simply because they were Jews, by the Nazis, but the slaughter extends as far back as 70AD, when the Jews were still the inhabitants of so called 'Palestine" when the Romans under Titus took Jerusalem and over one million Jews were killed.
In the late 1100's - early 1200's English persecution of the Jews culminated in the expulsion of Jews by Edward "...He arrested and imprisoned 600 Jews from all over England in the Tower of London. 270 were hanged, and their property was confiscated. Finally, on 18 July 1290, an Edict of Expulsion was issued, giving Jews three months to leave the country. The medieval Jewish community came to an end, as the refugees from England were absorbed into the greater numbers of the Jews of Europe..."
To assert that the millions died because they "have a tendency to bring it on themselves" is a horrific statement, matched only by the lack of condemnation from anyone else on the thread!