"Anti-Semitism" was nothing unfamiliar to Europeans. After all, ever since ancient Rome, before the Common Era, it had been considered a perfectly politically correct thing to do.
But the fact that almost every European people could be made to do the same thing was, to a large extent, their own fault.
The Jews took advantage of the Romans' absence on a campaign, when the rear was left undefended, and launched a rebellion. That, in itself, was entirely understandable.
However, the Jews who rose up weren't seeking revenge against the Romans. Instead, they launched the earliest terrorist campaign in human history.
The Jewish rebels began slaughtering the other peoples around them. Their killings weren't motivated by plunder; they were cold-blooded massacres.
Everyone was slaughtered, men and women, young and old alike.
According to the accounts of ancient Roman historians:
"They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts from their entrails, smeared themselves with their blood, and wore their skins as clothing. Many were sawn in half from head to toe; others were fed to wild beasts."
"They took savage vengeance on all the inhabitants of Libya, nearly wiping out the local farmers, until the land was abandoned for lack of anyone to till it.
"The rebels slaughtered the inhabitants of Salamis and utterly destroyed the city."
"There were no survivors. The entrails and eyeballs of all the dead were gouged out. They were true beasts."
War had always been savage and cruel, but the Jews' warfare was savage and cruel beyond measure. They slaughtered 220,000 people in one fell swoop—a population that, two thousand years ago, would have nearly equaled that of a small country.
Then they did it a second time, in a campaign directed specifically against non-Jews.
And then a third time, a fourth time...
The Jews were