300 year old British article on attacks on Jews could have been written today ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, May 01, 2026

300 year old British article on attacks on Jews could have been written today

The Caledonian Mercury, May 24, 1726, relayed a dispatch from Warsaw dated May 4:

A Priest of this City who was going to Cracow to gain the Benefit of the Jubilee, having found a Christian Infant on the Road, which was stabbed through and through, took it up and carried it before a Court of Justice: And the Students of this City thinking that the Jews were the Murderers, got the Mob together to be revenged on that People, of whom they killed severals, and would have proceeded to greater Mischief, had they not been restrained by the Garrison.

An antisemitic claim circulates. It is unverified and almost always fabricated.

Jews as a whole are presumed collectively responsible.

University students are in the forefront of the mob.

Anti-Jewish violence follows, or is attempted — and nobody is surprised.

Poland in 1726 was considered one of the more tolerant environments for Jews in Europe. The laws protected them. The garrison/police showed up but not in time to stop the violence. And really, no amount of police will ever stop a motivated mob that can attack anywhere at any time.

This sounds a lot like England is in 2026.

In Golders Green on Wednesday, it took police four minutes to arrive. They could never have prevented the attacks. Even if they were on every street corner, a murderer can strike.

The attacks were prompted not by facts nor by concern of innocent lives. Then, like now, they are prompted by hate which uses morality as a pretext.