History of Jewish Persecution

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Fifteenth century​

1401 Two Jews are burned to death for an alleged host desecration in Glogau.

1404 Many members of the Jewish community of Salzburg and Hallein is burned alive on charged of host desecration.

1421 Persecutions of Jews in Vienna, known as Wiener Gesera (Vienna Edict), confiscation of their possessions, and forced conversion of Jewish children. 270 Jews burned at stake. and all Viennese Jews are expelled following persecution.

1430 Pogrom in Aix-en-Provence breaks out in which 9 Jews are killed, many more are injured and 74 are forcibly converted.

1435 Massacre and forced conversion of Majorcan Jews.

1453 Around 40 Jews in Breslau are burned at the stake on charges of host desecration, while the head Rabbi hung himself to avoid the torture. Jewish children under 7 were stolen and forcibly baptized. The few Jews remaining were banished from Breslau.

1464 Over 30 Jews in Cracow are killed by an angry mob

1465 The Moroccan revolt against the Marinid dynasty, accusations against one Jewish Vizier lead to a massacre of the entire Jewish population of Fes.

1468 Many Jewish homes and plundered and a number are killed during anti-Jewish in Posen.

1473 Massacres of Marranos of Valladolid, Cordova, Segovia, Ciudad Real, Spain

1474 On Assumption day 15 August 1474, Christians wreaked brutal havoc on the Jewish dwellers of the Cartellone area of Modica. It was the first and most horrible massacre of Sicilian Jews. During the evening a number of Christians slaughtered about 360 Jews causing a total and fierce devastation in La Giudecca. They ran through the streets chanting: "Hurrah for Mary! Death to the Jews!" (Viva Maria! Morte ai Giudei!)

14931475 A student of the preacher Giovanni da Capistrano, Franciscan Bernardine of Feltre, accuses the Jews in murdering an infant, Simon. The entire community is arrested, 15 leaders are burned at the stake, the rest are expelled. In 1588, Pope Sixtus V confirmed Simon's cultus. Saint Simon was considered a martyr and patron of kidnap and torture victims for almost 500 years. In 1965, Pope Paul VI declared the episode a fraud, and decanonized Simon's sainthood.

1484 Pogrom against the Jewish section of Arles. A number of Jews are killed and 50 men are forced to convert.

1491 Muhammad al-Maghili orders the expulsion and murder of the Jewish community in Tlemcen

1492 The Jewish population of Tuat is massacred in a pogrom inspired by the preacher al-Maghili

1492 Jews of Mecklenburg, Germany are accused of stabbing a consecrated wafer. 27 Jews are burned, including two women. The spot is still called the Judenberg. All the Jews are expelled from the Duchy.

1492 Askia Mohammad I decrees that all Jews must convert to Islam, leave or be killed. Judaism becomes illegal in Mali. This was based on the advice of Muhammad al-Maghili. The region of Timbuktu had previously been tolerant of other religions before Askia got into power.

149 Jews of Thurgau attacked.

1494 16 Jews are burned at the stake after a blood libel in Trnava.

1495 The Jews of Lecce are massacred and the Jewish quarter is burned to the ground.

 

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Sixteenth century​

1504 Several Jewish scholars are burned at the stake for proselytizing in Moscow

1505 Ten České Budějovice Jews are tortured and executed after being accused of killing a Christian girl; later, on his deathbed, a shepherd confesses to fabricating the accusation

1506 A marrano expresses his doubts about miracle visions at St. Dominics Church in Lisbon, Portugal. The crowd, led by Dominican friars, kills him, then ransacks Jewish houses and slaughters any Jew they could find. The countrymen hear about the massacre and join in. Over 2,000 marranos killed in three days.

1509 38 Jews of Spandau, Brandenburg, and Stendal are burned at the stake in Berlin, Germany for allegedly desecrating the host; remainder expelled from Brandenburg.

1511 Most Apulian Jews are either expelled or are tortured to death. Jewish property is seized and Synagogues are replaced with Catholic Churches.1514The Jewish population of Mittelberg is accused of host desecration.

1517 1517 Hebron attacks: Jews are beaten, raped and killed in Hebron, as their homes and businesses are looted and pillaged.

1517 1517 Safed attacks: The Jews of Safed is attacked by Mamluk forces and local Arabs. Many Jews are killed and their homes are plundered.

1523 The conquest of Cranganore by the Portuguese leads to the complete destruction of the local Jewish community. Most refugees fled to Cochin.

1528 Three judaizers are burned at the stake in Mexico City's first auto da fe.

1529 30 Jewish men, women, and children are burned at the stake in Pezinok.

1532 Solomon Molcho is burned at the stake for refusing to return to Catholicism after reverting to Judaism.

1539 Katarzyna Weiglowa, a Roman Catholic woman from the Kingdom of Poland who converted to Judaism is burned at the stake in Kraków under the charge of apostasy for refusing to call Jesus Christ the Son of God. She is regarded by Jews (among others) as a martyr.

1542 Moses Fishel of Cracow is accused of proselytizing and dies a martyr

1543 Jeronimo Diaz, a New Christian physician, is burned at the stake for holding heretical opinions in Goa, India.

1546 Martin Luther's sermon Admonition against the Jews contains accusations of ritual murder, black magic, and poisoning of wells. Luther recognizes no obligation to protect the Jews.

1554 Cornelio da Montalcino, a Franciscan Friar who converted to Judaism, is burned alive in Rome.

1555 The Martyrs of 1555. 25 Jews in Ancona are hanged or burned at the stake for refusing to convert to Christianity as a result of Pope Paul IV's Bull of 1555.

1556 A rumor is sent around that a poor woman in Sokhachev named Dorothy sold Jews the holy wafer received by her during communion, and that it was stabbed until it bled. The Bishop of Khelm accuses the local Jews, and eventually three Jews along with Dorothy Lazhentzka are arrested, put on the rack, and sentenced to death on charges of host desecration. They were burned at the stake. Before their death, the martyred Jews made a declaration:

"We have never stabbed the host, because we do not believe that the host is the Divine body, knowing that God has no body nor blood. We believe, as did our forefathers, that the Messiah is not God, but His messenger. We also know from experience that there can be no blood in flour."

1563 Russian troops take Polotsk from Lithuania, Jews are given ultimatum: embrace Russian Orthodox Church or die. Around 300 Jewish men, women and children were thrown into ice holes of Dvina river

1564 Brest-Litovsk: the son of a wealthy Jewish tax collector is accused of killing the family's Christian servant for ritual purposes. He is tortured and executed in line with the law. King Sigismund II of Poland forbids future charges of ritual murder, calling them groundless.

1590 Jewish quarter of Mikulov (Nikolsburg) burns to ground and 15 people die while Christians watch or pillage.

1592 Esther Chiera is executed with one of her sons by the Sultan Murad III's calvary.

 

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Seventeenth century​

1603 Frei Diogo da Assumpcão, a partly Jewish friar who embraced Judaism, burned alive in Lisbon

1614 Vincent Fettmilch, who called himself the "new Haman of the Jews", leads a raid on the Frankfurt Jewish quarter that turned into an attack that destroyed the whole community.

1615 The Guild led by Dr. Chemnitz, "non-violently" forced the Jews from Worms.1

1624 Christian theologian Antonio Homem is burned at the stake for pursuing Judaism.

1628 Roman Jewish mistress of the son of the duke of Parma is burned alive.

1630 Jewish merchant Moses the Braider is burned alive after being accused of host desecration

1631 Due to awful conditions in the Jewish Ghetto of Padua, 421 out of the 721 Jews living in the ghetto perish.

1637 Four Jews are publicly tortured and executed in Kraków.

1639 Over 60 Judaizers are burned at the stake at an Auto-da-fé in Lima, Peru. Among those martyred was physician Francisco Maldonado de Silva.

1655 The Ukrainian Cossacks led by Bohdan Chmielnicki massacre about 100,000 Jews and similar number of Polish nobles, 300 Jewish communities destroyed.1649Largest Auto-da-fé in the New World. 109 victims, 13 were burned alive and 57 in effigy.

1661 Sephardic poet Antonio Enríquez Gómez is publicly burned in effigy in Seville.

1663 Two Christian Janissaries accuse the Jews of Istanbul of killing a child who had actually been killed by his own father. After killing his own son, he threw his body onto the Jewish quarter in order to implicate the Jews in the crime. Once the Grand Vizier learned the facts of the case from his spies stationed in the Greek quarter, he informed the Sultan and the Janissaries were put to death. 20 Jews were killed in total by the Greek mobs.

1664 Jews of Lemberg (now Lviv) ghetto organize self-defense against impending assault by students of Jesuit seminary and Cathedral school. The militia sent by the officials to restore order, instead joined the attackers. About 100 Jews killed

1670 Raphael Levy is burned at the stake over blood libel. After being offered a chance to convert and live, he declared that he had lived a Jew and would die a Jew.

1686 Only 500 Jews survive after Austrian sieged the city of Buda. Half of them are sold into slavery.

1689 The Jewish Ghetto of Prague is destroyed by French troops. After it was over 318 houses, 11 synagogues, and 150 Jews were dead.

1691 219 people are convicted of being Jewish in Palma, Majorca. 37 of them are burned to death. Among those martyred is Raphael and his sister Catalina Benito, who although declaring she wanted to live, jumped right into the flames rather than to be baptized

 

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Eighteenth century​

1721 Maria Barbara Carillo was burned at the stake for heresy during the Spanish Inquisition. She was executed at the age of 95 or 96

1734 The Haidamaks, paramilitary bands in Polish Ukraine, attack Jews.

1736 María Francisca Ana de Castro, called La bella toledana, a Spanish immigrant to Peru, was arrested in 1726, accused of "judaizing" (being a practicing Jew). She was burned at the stake after an auto de fe in 1736. This event was a major spectacle in Lima, but it raised questions about possible irregular procedures and corruption within the Inquisition.1737Blood libel in Jarosław leads to Jews being tortured and others being put to death.

1790 Yazid becomes the Sultan of Morocco and immediately orders troops to massacre and plunder the Jewish quarter of Tétouan


1792 Destruction of most of the Jewish communities of Morocco.

 

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The OP doesn't really seem to be addressing his question as to causes.

Oh well.

I will tell you but first I want to hear your answer.

Why did this all happen?

 

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I forgot one, because the sad truth of the matter is that my list is far from a comprehensive one.

Masada.

(66–73 AD)
Masada (Hebrew: מְצָדָה məṣādā, 'fortress'; Arabic: جبل مسعدة) is a mountain-top fortress complex in the Judaean Desert, overlooking the western shore of the Dead Sea in southeastern Israel. The fort, built in the first century BC, was constructed atop a natural plateau rising over 400 m (1,300 ft) above the surrounding terrain, 20 km (12 mi) east of modern Arad.

The most significant remains at the site date to the reign of Herod the Great, King of Judaea c. 37–4 BC, who transformed Masada into a fortified desert refuge early in his rule. He enclosed the summit with a casemate wall and towers, and constructed storerooms, an advanced water system, and bathhouses, along with two elaborate palaces: one on the western side and another built across three terraces on the northern cliff. These palaces remain among the finest examples of Herodian architecture.

Masada is most renowned for its role during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 AD), when it became the final holdout of Jewish rebels following the destruction of Jerusalem. A group known as the Sicarii, a radical faction led by Eleazar ben Ya'ir, defended the site against the Roman Tenth Legion under Lucius Flavius Silva. The Romans laid siege by building a circumvallation wall and a massive ramp. According to Josephus, when the walls were breached in 73/74 AD, the Romans found nearly 1,000 inhabitants had died by mass suicide—a claim that remains debated among historians. In modern times, the story of Masada was interpreted as a symbol of heroism that became influential in early Israeli national identity.

Why did Masada become the identity of the Zionist state? Well, just review the little history lesson provided to you. Israel is their Masada. They either defend it to the death, or die trying.