• Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    Quoting Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, pg. 63:

    Perhaps inevitably, the public hysteria about medical murder was stoked by incendiary manuscript pamphlets listing the names and places of residence of individual medical practitioners accused of murdering their patients.

    By way of illustration, the Portuguese pamphlet Treatise in which it is proved that the New Christians of the [Hebrew] Nation who dwell in Portugal are secret Jews and in which the evils that they inflict upon Old Christians are pointed out, circulating in the 1630s, enumerated the names of fifty-one New Christian physicians, surgeons and apothecaries working in Portugal and Spain convicted by the Inquisition of crypto-Jewish beliefs and, in some cases, even of mass murder.

    Looks like doxxing is an older phenomenon than I thought.

      • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        9·
        6 days ago

        Pg. 66:

        Vesga certainly expressed his claims in an atmosphere of heightened anti-morisco popular anxiety and in the years immediately preceding the royal decision to decree the expulsion of the moriscos from Spain in 1609.

        The decades preceding the expulsion decree were characterised by increasingly strident and alarmist claims targeting the moriscos: from the allegation accusing them of systematically conspiring with Spain’s Muslim adversaries in the Mediterranean to that of seeking to take over the kingdoms through their allegedly explosive birth rate.³⁶

        (Emphasis added.)