*MOst people think the first outburst , and LAST (except perhaps in the middle east), of anti-semitism on a lrge scale in the world was the Holcaust.

 

Indeed in public schooling around the world one rarely would hear much of the massacres of large Jewish communities in France and Germany , and York in ENgland, during the Crusades. (and the Jews in Jerusalem were burnt inside their synogogue)

 

Indeed one would never know from public schooling that the Church issued edicts that Jews in Christian Europe should wear a mark, a circle or other patch on their clothing (in England it was the shape of the 10 commandments) nor that the Jews were expelled from FRance for many decades, from ENgland for hundreds of years, from various GErman cities, and of course from Spain and Portugal and their American colonies in South and Central America for the centuries fo the Inquisition.

Of course in Russian history one would never hear of the many attacks by armed Russians ("cossaks") against Jewish villages without any intervention by Russian police.

 

In American history we probably rarely hear of Haim Solomon who donated practically his whole estate for the revolutionary cause or of the fact that through American history hundreds of thousands of JEws fought in the Armed forces.

(especially during WW 2) Indeed during the current IRaq war JEwish soldiers were amongst the dead.

 

UNdoubtedly alot has to do with both ignorance and the likelihood of the teachers not being Jewish or caring to talk about it, especially parts that shed "bad light" on Christian European history.

 

ira