The “star of david” was not an official jewish symbol until 1897. It’s also not found in any religious texts.
Before the “star of david,” Christian nations forced jews to wear the Judenhut (Jew's hat) in medieval Europe as an identifying marker.
It was quite common. 🧵👇
These are the countries and time durations jews were forced to wear these hats:
• Papal States / Church-wide decree: 1215–1798 (Fourth Lateran Council decree of 1215, enforced variably until the 18th–19th centuries)
• Holy Roman Empire (Germany & surrounding areas): ca. 1215–late 15th century (enforced locally, largely phased out by 1500)
• France: 1215–late 14th century (expulsion in 1394 effectively ended the requirement)
• England: 1215–1290 (expulsion of Jews in 1290 ended the practice)
• Spain (Crown of Castile & Aragon): ca. 1215–early 15th century (requirement dropped or replaced by the 15th century, before the 1492 expulsion)
• Portugal: ca. 1215–1497 (ended with forced conversion or expulsion in 1497)
• Italy (various city-states & kingdoms): 1215–late 18th century (e.g., Venice, Rome, Tuscany until the Napoleonic era or later)
• Poland-Lithuania: never mandatory (Jews were not required to wear the Judenhut; other markers such as badges were sometimes imposed later)
• Hungary: 1215–late 15th century (enforced sporadically, later replaced by yellow badge)
This 17th-century German broadside woodcut (ca. 1610–1620) depicts a grotesque, hook-nosed Jew wearing the mandatory pointed Judenhut while a large black cat (symbol of the devil) sits on his shoulder, portraying Jews as sorcerers in league with Satan - a common antisemitic libel of the time.
This is a 15th century painting, that depicts the ritualistic murder of Simon of Trent.
Ancient artwork can really tell us a lot about the culture of our ancestors, and what they believed.
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This image is a 15th-century fresco from Poland, depicting the ritual murder of a Christian child named Svienty (or Świętosław) in 1462, with the accused jews shown boiling the boy in a cauldron.
This painting is from 18th-century England, depicting a religious jew greedily holding a set of dentures (with a gold tooth) as if preparing to extract it for its monetary value.
They have been lying about who they are for so long, that they have started to believe it! 😂😂😂
I’ll break it down real good in the tread. 🧵👇
This is literally who they are. 😂
Herod was an Edomite that usurped Judea by bribing Rome. They are descendants of Abraham, that are NOT Israelites, that mixed their blood with the Canaanites who adorned this star ✡️.
They have been calling themselves “jews” ever since.