I’m visiting Israel at the moment and just went to the holocaust museum in Tel Aviv. Obviously one reflects on the appalling Nazi holocaust – but I also thought about those many centuries of pogroms and persecutions that Jews faced across Europe. In the Templar period, Jewish people were massacred during the frenzy whipped up…
Images from a visit by Templar expert Tony McMahon to the Holy Sepulchre in 2012. This church is the reputed sight of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was once the site of the Jewish Temple but it was also the HQ for the Knights Templar
Jaffa was a hugely important city in the Crusades – now increasingly absorbed by Tel Aviv in modern Israel
How violence in the Bible was used to justify the medieval crusades including massacres as Tony McMahon discovers
A terrible and disgraceful act when England conducted a racist pogrom and expelled its Jews in the 13th century
Toledo in Spain shows how Christians and Muslims lived together and even allowed churches to become mosques and vice versa
The relationship between the Jews and the Knights Templar was complex with the knights protecting Jewish people as Tony McMahon discovers
Some believe that the Knights Templar were dabbling in the dark magical arts of the Kabbalah
King Philip of France crushed the Knights Templar for the money – but there were other motives too as Tony McMahon investigates
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