Again, Fred, you're putting your own spin onto things again.
Christian lenders charged interest. Muslim lenders charged interest. Jewish lenders charged interest.
Why are you so quick to assume that Jewish money lenders were ripping everyone off by charging exorbitant interest rates?
Why do you choose to let the monarchy and their acolytes off the hook by blaming Jews again?
Why do you ignore the extra heavy taxes charged to Jews in England by, for example, Edward I?
Why do you ignore the convert-to-our-religion-or-flee edicts in Spain and France?
Why do you ignore the fact that they were viewed as competitors by other parties in the finance business?
I am not saying that there wasn't excessive interest being charged by some money lenders - that would be naive.
But where is the evidence for your claim that they were repeatedly expelled for that reason?
There are plenty of apparent reasons.
The origins and history of the poison that is anti Semitism has been analysed, discussed, investigated, dissected and scrutinised for years and years and years.
Your conclusion that it’s the fault of the victim is - without wishing to sound rude - facile. Try reading some of the in-depth work that’s out there to get a clearer picture
of what could actually be going on here.
You may have heard this old joke ...
At a Nazi rally in Nuremberg, where Hitler is screaming, “Who causes all of Germany’s problems?”
an old man in the crowd shouts back, “The cyclists!”
Hitler’s taken by surprise and asks, “Why the cyclists?” to which the old man replies, “Why the Jews?”
That was the 1930s — and we’re still asking the question in the 21st century.
As long as there are people keeping this hatred alive, it will remain alive.
Mmmm ... must have been a big bed. The Medici were the rulers of Tuscany and the Florence republic. The del Banco family lived in Venice.
I thought we were talking about time the del Banco family fled Venice I asked you why you claimed that they fled the city because of dodgy business practices.
Still waiting for a reply on that ...
Really?? Why?
Don’t you find an open debate and free exchange of differing ideas presented in a polite and respectful manner to be of value?
Isn’t that part of what’s nifty about being human?
It’s particularly important to engage with those who hold different opinions, don’t you think?
Who’s that then? The white Protestants in the US?
I assume you’re talking about the Jewish people: if so, that is a straw man argument. Where is the evidence that some kind of gagging order is being enforced?
A quick search through even the mass media press - here in the UK at least - shows a healthy, broad spectrum of massively different opinions and beliefs voiced
in coherent debate, without any need to resort to insults or canards.
For example: since 2003, the UN has issued 232 resolutions with respect to Israel, 40% of all resolutions issued by the UN over the period and more than six times
that of the second placed country, Sudan.
How is that "not daring to question"? We are all free to question whomever we want - if we can summon up the interest.