In 1378, a high-ranking Franciscan priest named Ferrán…

“After the Black Death in the mid-1300s, the persecution of Jews intensified, and many Jews in Europe moved farther east. Some left because life…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“In Arab nations, many people opposed Zionism because they believed that the UN had no right to establish a Jewish state on what they…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“135 years later, in 586 BCE, the Babylonians conquered Judea, the southern kingdom. They destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem and forced thousands of Jews…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Still, by the end of the thirteenth century, most European Jews were forced to wear badges or distinguishing clothing. The aim was to humiliate…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“As accusations spread, so did the false belief that Jews routinely engaged in the practice of ritual murder. An accusation made repeatedly tends to…

— Phyllis Goldstein

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

— Jacques Barzun

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as…

— Edward Abbey

“They are strange trees, palm trees, they are so individualistic, so unique, so full of capriciousness, just as Jews are. One palm tree appears…

— Dvorah Telushkin Master of Dreams A Memoir of Isaac Bashevis Singer 1997 2004

The Bible is to gays what Mein Kampf is to Jews.

— Peter Tatchell

My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and…

— Elliott Yamin

“There have been various attempts to reconstruct the vocalization and pronunciation of classical biblical Hebrew, which certainly differs considerably from that established by the…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

— Malcolm X

In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my…

— Menachem Begin

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare…

— Yasser Arafat

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

— Neve Campbell