Focus On Israel #93: Constantine's Sword

Roman Emperor Constantine's transformation of the cross into a symbolic sword that declared a formal split between Christianity and the Jews became a seed of violent intolerance in the development of early Christianity. This declaration, "Let us then have nothing in common with the Jews," made in 329 AD, some three hundred years after the death of Jesus, stuck hard at Jewish communities all across the European continent, laying the groundwork for the waves of Christian antisemitism that would later sweep Europe.