The Christian expulsion of Jews from Iberia was so extreme and caused so many forced Conversos and Jews to migrate to Mexico that for a time the term Mexican was used in the New World as a clever way of implying Jewish without actually having to say it. Then the Inquisition came to Mexico and all the crypto-Jews who weren’t crypto enough caught pure hell.

The idea that Christians should act like friends to the Jews is a rather new one, and has really only gained traction since modern Israel’s founding in the aftermath of the Holocaust. I suspect that deep down, many of them just want to see the Temple rebuilt, and that this new found love for Jews is simply a means to the end.