This might be the first anti-Semitic painting. It was created in 1215 A.D.-- the same year of the Magna Carta. Isaac of Norwich is depicted as a multi-person anti-Christ-- as a rabbi, a moneylender, and merchant.
The Magna Carta was the first constitutional document that limited a king’s powers and granted rights to ordinary people.
Our own Constitution—with supposed checks and balances and supposed individual rights— descended from this charter. (I say “supposed” because our Constitution is often breached these days.)
The Magna Carta was the first constitutional document that limited a king’s powers and granted rights to ordinary people.
Our own Constitution—with supposed checks and balances and supposed individual rights— descended from this charter. (I say “supposed” because our Constitution is often breached these days.)
Now consider the rise in anti-Semitism here and in Europe. A “respectable” German politician is suggesting that Jews avoid wearing their kippas (religious skullcaps) in public.
I have not understood why anti-Semitism finds fertile soil in Europe and here … but read on. The fact that King John listed rights of ordinary people against Jews is testament to the irrational hatred of Jews.
10. If one who has borrowed from the Jews any sum, great or small,
die before that loan be repaid, the debt shall not bear interest while the heir
is under age, of whomsoever he may hold; and if the debt fall into our hands,
we will not take anything except the principal sum contained in the bond.
11. And if anyone die indebted to the Jews, his wife shall have her
dower and pay nothing of that debt; and if any children of the deceased are
left under age, necessaries shall be provided for them in keeping with the
holding of the deceased; and out of the residue the debt shall be paid,
reserving, however, service due to feudal lords; in like manner let it be done
touching debts due to others than Jews.
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