They murdered a lot of Christians, as a routine matter for them, right up to the rise of Islam, and then they joined their Muslim brothers in raiding and murdering Christians all over the Med as well as the ME; Jewish soldiers invaded Italy and Spain with the North Africans and Arabs, provided town garrison troops and ruled over them as administrators for hundreds of years of Muslim occupations. Some even opened the gates of towns assisting the invaders. Their main appeal to assorted feudal rulers was their trade connections and usefulness in plundering the lower classes for the nobles and kings, not jobs that endeared them to the general populace, and one they really enjoyed doing. Those 'ghettoes' we keep reading about were originally demanded by Jews themselves; they didn't want their racist culture tainted by exposure to the sub-human goys while they worked for the kings and nobles plundering the peasants and craftsmen.
The myth that they were some hapless innocent hobbits who only wanted to help everybody n stuff and were heartlessly oppressed by the Evul Xians is a a lot of self-serving rubbish. Their main snivel is that the sub-human goy wouldn't let them take their plunder with them when they were expelled, which is an unforgivable atrocity and insulting from such animals. It wasn't until the late 18th Century that Jewish culture had it's own version of The Enlightenment and lost some of its snobbery and Master Race mentality. Of course Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews are still huge fans of their Master Race myth, and they make up a large minority of Jews today, particularly in NYC and Israel, probably over 10% or more.
GOYIM(GENTILES) WERE BORN ONLY TO SERVE US. WITHOUT THAT, THEY HAVE NO PLACE IN THE WORLD-ONLY TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL....WITH GENTILES IT WILL BE LIKE ANY PERSON-THEY NEED TO DIE BUT GOD WILL GIVE THEM LONGEVITY. WHY? IMAGINE THAT ONE'S DONKEY WOULD DIE, THEY'D LOSE THEIR MONEY. THIS IS HIS SERVANT....THAT'S WHY HE GETS A LONG LIFE, TO WORK WELL FOR THE JEW. WHY ARE GENTILES NEEDED? THEY WILL WORK, THEY WILL PLOW, THEY WILL REAP. WE WILL SIT LIKE AN EFFENDI AND EAT. THAT IS WHY GENTILES WERE CREATED.
-Rabbi Ovadia Yosef senior Sephardic posek and head of the Shas Council of Torah Sages. A Sermon on the laws regarding non-jews. SOURCE: YOSEF: GENTILES EXIST ONLY TO SERVE JEWS JERUSALEM POST OCTOBER 18, 2010.