Antisemitism in Europe

Antisemitism, prejudice or discrimination against Jews, has existed since the ancient times. While antisemitism had already been prevalent in ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, its institutionalization in European Christianity after the destruction of the ancient Jewish cultural center in Jerusalem led to centuries of intermittent segregations, expulsions and pogroms, culminating in the 20th-century genocide known as the Holocaust in Nazi German-occupied European states, where approximately 67% of all European Jews and all third of all Jews on Earth were murdered.