<![CDATA[The justifications used throughout history to hate, exclude, abuse, and murder Jews have been many and varied. In Christian countries, Jews were accused of murdering Jesus, of poisoning wells, of slaughtering Christian children whose blood was needed to make matza (unleavened flat bread required for Passover), and of bringing the Black Plague. In post-Christian, National Socialist countries, they were accused of being communists, but more importantly, an inferior race; in post-Christian, Communist countries, they were accused of being capitalists. ]]>