Title: Raw anger
Product review: This book is not an honest effort to document the history of the Catholic Church's attitudes toward Israel.As many reviewers have noted, the book simply exaggerates the apparently anti-Semitic pasages in works written by Catholic dignitaries and then suppresses the many pro-Semitic passages, often in the same work.The treatment of Pius XI is typical. Like most leaders in the 1930's (including many Jewish leaders of the period), he opposed Zionism. His critiques of Zionism are presented as signs of some ethnic prejudice. But this pope's many condemnations of anti-Semitism are ignored: the 1928 Holy Office condemnation of anti-Semitism; the 1937 Mit Brennender Sorge denunciation of Nazi racism; the 1938 speeches condemning anti-Semitic bias.Clearly the author's agenda has nothing to do with Judaism or tolerance.
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