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Content: Why were the Crusades failures and yet successes? Of course, the Crusades were not completely beneficial to Western Europeans. A negative effect of the Crusades was that Christians began to kill Jews simply because they were not Christians. This persecution and hatred of Jews is called Anti-Semitism. In fact, religious intolerance increased during and after the Crusades. During the 200 years of the Crusades, Christians killed thousands of Muslims and Muslims killed thousands of Christians. In fact, some Western European Christians killed Eastern European Christians because they dressed like Muslims! This caused a lasting split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Answer the following questions in complete sentences. What is Anti-Semitism?