Politicians have been telling toxic lies for nearly 1,000 years. They’re still dangerous: Phil Heimlich
By Phil Heimlich - Cleveland.com
CINCINNATI – In the mid-1300s, the Black Death became the most devastating pandemic in history, killing 75 million people worldwide (25 million in Europe alone). Differences between Christianity and Judaism led to the social ostracism of the Jewish people so, as the Times of Israel has put it, “People looking for reasons to hate the Jews didn’t have to look very hard.” A myth developed that the king of Tunisia, some lepers and the Jews had conspired to destroy Christianity by poisoning the wells with a concoction made of lizards, spiders, frogs, human hearts, urine and sacred hosts. The result was the slaughter of tens of thousands of Jews and the destruction of over 200 Jewish communities.
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