Visigoth King Sentences All Jews for Aiding Muslims
A king invented a conspiracy to solve a problem he couldn't prove existed. Egica, ruling Visigothic Hispania, accused the entire Jewish population of secretly aiding Muslim forces — no trial, no evidence presented publicly, just a royal declaration. The sentence: slavery for every Jew in the kingdom. But the irony cuts deep. Within seventeen years, Muslim armies actually did sweep across Hispania — and many Jews welcomed them as liberators. Egica's paranoid cruelty had guaranteed exactly the outcome he'd feared.
November 9, 694
1332 years ago
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