In the Gospel, the book of Matthew narrates the horrific biblical description of the killing of Jewish infants by the Roman king of Israel, Herod, at the time of Jesus’ birth. The Old Testament portrays him to be a ruthless tyrant, mostly because of this intention to kill anyone who could maintain the throne. His instability and crudity are particularly notable for the murder of his wife Mariamne, their two children, and of course, the slaughter of thousands of Jewish children. When Jewish astrologers notified Herod of the coming of the new King, he arranged that every child under the age of two be killed in, and around the town of Bethlehem. Herod was aware of the prophecy and believed that the son of God would ultimately become a military …show more content…
This ‘old anti-Semitism,’ with its persistent bitterness toward Jews seems to be more so a personal belief or an attitude. Starting in the 1990’s, some scholars have advanced the concept of the ‘New anti-Semitism’. This preaches hatred not only against Jews, but also against Israel as a whole. Although the state has given Jews a boundary of physical protection, it has not removed anti-Semitism. The opposite seems to be most accurate. Jews are not only hated for what they do outside Israel, but especially for what they do inside of their “Holy Land”. A more recent example of an anti-Semitism attack would be the Holocaust that transpired 1943. Written to be the largest, most well-known Jewish attack in history, thousands upon thousands of Jews had been composed and transported to Nazi death camps. The massacre of the Hebrews and the Holocaust are both similar in forms of that during both occurrences, they were slaughtered for the reason that they are “God’s chosen people”. Religious aspects of anti-Semitism define characteristics of attacks that have victimized Jewish people. Studies show that raids would often end for short periods of time if Jews stopped practicing Jewish customs or changed their public faith, especially by changing their religion to