Editing Antisemitism in Christianity (section)

===anti-Semitism===
[[File:Burning Jews.jpg|thumb|Jews burned alive for the alleged [[host desecration]] in [[Deggendorf]], Bavaria, in 1337]]
Anti-Semitism in popular European Christian culture escalated beginning in the 13th century. [[Blood libels]] and [[host desecration]] drew popular attention and led to many cases of persecution against Jews. Many believed Jews poisoned wells to cause plagues. In the case of blood libel, it was widely believed that the Jews would kill a child before Easter and needed Christian blood to bake matzo. Throughout history, if a Christian child was murdered accusations of blood libel would arise no matter how small the Jewish population. The Church often added to the fire by portraying the dead child as a martyr who had been tortured, and who had powers like Jesus was believed to. Sometimes the children were even made into saints.<ref name="The Butcher's Tale">The Butcher's Tale</ref> Anti-Semitic imagery such as [[Judensau]] and [[Ecclesia et Synagoga]] recurred in Christian art and architecture. Anti-Jewish Easter holiday customs such as the [[Burning of Judas]] continue to the present time.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bachner |first1=Michael |title=Polish crowd beats, burns Judas effigy with hat, sidelocks of ultra-Orthodox Jew |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/polish-crowd-beats-burns-judas-effigy-featuring-anti-semitic-tropes/ |agency=Times of Israel |date=April 21, 2019}}</ref>

In Iceland, one of the hymns repeated in the days leading up to Easter includes the lines:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-vilhjalmur-f04.htm |title=Iceland, the Jews, and Anti-Semitism, 1625–2004 – Vilhjálmur Örn Vilhjálmsson |publisher=Jcpa.org |access-date=2013-07-10}}</ref>

{{poemquote|
The righteous Law of Moses
The Jews here misapplied,
Which their deceit exposes,
Their hatred and their pride.
The judgement is the Lord's.
When by falsification
The foe makes accusation,
It's His to make awards.}}