[lbo-talk] Fw: Question for you classicists (Jews in the Roman Empire)

Marvin Gandall marvgandall at videotron.ca
Thu Nov 8 11:16:20 PST 2007


Chris Doss wrote:


> I'm reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall. and in the
> section on persecution of the Christians he also
> discusses persecution of the Jews. He states that they
> were not totally unjustified, as Jews had been
> carrying out massacres in parts of the Empire. This
> sounds plausible, but he "sexes it up" (see quote
> below) in a way that makes me think he's just
> repeating anti-Semitic calumnies. Did this actually
> happen?
================================== Yes, according to a study called the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Further supporting evidence, I think, in something called The Turner Diaries.



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