The solution was to torture, murder, and burn the Jews. In Bavaria 12,000 Jews perished; in the small town of Erfurt another 3,000 died. Near Tours, an immense trench was dug, filled with blazing wood and in a single day 160 Jews were thrown into the fire and burned alive. In Strausberg 2,000 Jews were burned. In Maintz 6,000 were killed. Another 12,000 Jews were executed in Toledo.

1492: Spain exiled all remaining Jews. The same day Christopher Columbus sailed on his voyage to the New World, the last boat-load of Jews left Spain with no place to go. The timing of the two events was prophetic. The Jewish community in Spain was the oldest, wealthiest, best educated in Western Europe. They provided much of the intellectual elite for the nation.

1517: The Protestant Reformation began under the leadership of Martin Luther. When Jews refused to convert to Christ, Luther assailed them with language too vile, too vulgar to put in print. 400 years after Luther, Adolph Hitler eagerly quoted Luther’s villainy to justify his murder of the Jews.

1563: When the army of Ivan the Terrible occupied the Polish city of Polotzk all local Jews were ordered to convert to the Orthodox faith. Those who resisted were drowned in the Dvina River or burned at the stake.

1840: A rumor spread in Syria that Jews were responsible for the ritual killing of a Roman Catholic monk and his servant. As a result of being tortured to the point of insanity, some local Jews confessed to a crime they did not commit.

1846-1878: Pope Pius IX order all Jews within the Vatican State to be house in Rome’s ghetto. This was the last ghetto in Europe until the Nazis restored the practice in the Second World War. In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II–ignoring the sin of Pius IX–beatified him, starting him toward sainthood. Pius’ crimes against the Jews were totally ignored.

1858: A six-year old Jewish boy was kidnaped by the Vatican police when they learned a maid had secretly baptized him. She had done this without his parents approval. An international protest followed but he was not returned to his family. He remained in Papal custody, was raised a Catholic, and eventually became a priest.

1903: At Easter, in Kishinev, Moldova, a Christian child was murdered and a young Christian woman committed suicide at the Jewish Hospital. Jews were blamed for the deaths. Russian government agents organized an anti-Jewish riot with the local newspaper publishing a series of inflammatory articles. Violence ensued. The 5,000 soldiers in the town did nothing to protect the Jews. In a short time, 49 Jews had been killed, 500 were injured; 700 homes looted and destroyed, 600 businesses and shops looted, 2,000 families left homeless. Later, it was discovered that the child had been killed by its own relatives and the suicide was totally unrelated to the Jews. That mattered not. The Jews had already paid for someone else’s crime.

1915: 600,000 Jews were forcibly moved from the western borders of Russia towards the interior. About 100,000 died of exposure and starvation.

1917: “In the civil war following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the reactionary White Armies made extensive use of riots to incite widespread slaughters of Jews.” 200,000 Jews were murdered in the Ukraine.

1938: On November 9th, the Nazi government in Germany sent storm troopers, the SS and the Hitler Youth on an attack that killed 91 Jews, injured hundreds, burned 177 synagogues and looted 7,500 Jewish stores. Broken glass could be seen everywhere; the glass gave this event its name of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.

1939: The United States took part in the anti-Jewish action when the MS St. Louis, a German ocean liner with 915 Jewish refugees from Germany were denied entry into the United States. The ship returned to Europe where many of the passengers died in Nazi concentration camps. It is estimated that some 6,000,000 million Jews died in Hitler’s Death Camps. They were not alone. Many Gypsies and other unwanted ethnic groups also perished.

1940: The Vichy government of France collaborated with Nazi Germany by freezing about 80,000 Jewish bank accounts. During the next four years, they deported about 76,000 Jews to Nazi death camps; only about 2,500 survived. It was only in 1995 that a French president, Jacques Chirac, “was able to admit that the state bore a heavy share of responsibility in the mass round-ups and deportations of Jews, as well as in the property and asset seizures that were carried out with the active help of the Vichy regime.”

1941: the Jewish Lithuanian population numbered around 220,000. The Capital, Vilinus, had become the Jewish center of rabbinical learning and influence in Europe.

1941: During the German invasion of June 1941, 206,800 Jews were murdered by the Nazis with the aid of Christian civilians. Many were clubbed to death.

2015: England’s behavior toward the Jews: A senior member of the Royal Family has never made an official visit to Israel, after more than six decades. Her Majesty the Queen has been on the throne 57 years and has undertaken 250 official visits to 129 countries. Not once has she been to Israel. She has visited 14 Arab countries–Israel? No.