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Besides, you also have many Jews living in the country, who do much harm […] You should know the Jews blaspheme and violate the name of our Savior day for day […] for that reason you, Milords and men of authority, should not tolerate but expel them. They are our public enemies and incessantly blaspheme our Lord Jesus Christ, they call our Blessed Virgin Mary a harlot and her Holy Son a bastard and to us they give the epithet of changelings and abortions. Therefore deal with them harshly as they do nothing but excruciatingly blaspheme our Lord Jesus Christ, trying to rob us of our lives, our health, our honor and belongings.

Besides, you also have many Jews living in the country, who do much harm […] You should know the Jews blaspheme and violate the name of our Savior day for day […] for that reason you, Milords and men of authority, should not tolerate but expel them. They are our public enemies and incessantly blaspheme our Lord Jesus Christ, they call our Blessed Virgin Mary a harlot and her Holy Son a bastard and to us they give the epithet of changelings and abortions. Therefore deal with them harshly as they do nothing but excruciatingly blaspheme our Lord Jesus Christ, trying to rob us of our lives, our health, our honor and belongings.

Martin Luther (Father of the Reformation) quoted in “The Jews” by Zuhdī Fātiḥ, 1972