that the Christian Crusades were no less brutal in their own
way, violently proselytizing so-called "heathen" non-Christians, including Jews along
with followers of Islam.
Jews of course can never fail. They are perpetual supermen who only know how to succede and everybody is just envious of their eternal greatness and perfection. Jews don't grow decadent, only gentiles do.
Think about Jerusalem, maybe they shouldn't have antagonized the Romans, who were just an instrument of the retribution of God anyway.
Maybe if they didn't conspire with the Sassians the Justinian code wouldn't have been necessary.
And maybe if they didn't brutalize the Polish peasantry with the arenda system and tried to saqueeze the Cossacks the same way, the latter wouldn't have responded by trying to wipe out every Jew and Polish person they could get theirs hands on, even though the Polish Catholic peasants had been suffering under the same system. And before putting the blame on the corrupt Polish nobility alone, let's not forget that a bill was proposed to lessen Jewish exploitation of the Cossacks in order to enlist their aid for the crusade against the Turks, and the Jews managed to force the Sejm to turn it down! Then, to add insult to injury, a jew by the name of Zachariah Sabikenki literally Jewed Chmielnicki out of his possessions and wife!
This is all according to Graetz, a Jewish historian.
And how did Chmielnicki respond? By fu*cking marching into Poland with a Cossack-Tatar army going schorched earth on everything, but especially Jews.
Justified? Maybe not but that kind of fury didn't come out of nowhere, and no amount of historical white wash can erase the fact Jews did everything in their power to make that backlash happen.