According to Ibn al-Qalanisi, although he exaggerated the numbers of the victims. And all the Jews that crowded into their synagogue were burned alive inside. Mistaking the al-Aqsa mosque for the Temple of Solomon, Raymond of Aguilers wrote a notorious account of what he had observed: Wonderful sights were to be seen. Some of our […]
Synagogue on Temple Mount Destroyed / Murder of Jews “Such wise mercy was the prelude to an orgy of destruction that shamed Christendom and led to a jihad against the Crusaders as well as confirming the pogroms in Germany. There was a slaughter of the Muslims who had taken refuge in the al-Aqsa mosque, ‘more […]
July 15th, 1099 The Temple Mount Within hours of breaching the walls of Jerusalem in 1099, the victorious Crusaders had massacred almost all of the city’s Jewish and Muslim inhabitants. The Crusaders ascended the Temple Mount and after giving thanks to God for their victory, converted the mosques into churches, renaming the Dome of the […]
Synagogue on Temple Mount Destroyed/ Murder of Jews “Such wise mercy was the prelude to an orgy of destruction that shamed Christendom and led to a jihad against the Crusaders as well as confirming the pogroms in Germany. There was a slaughter of the Muslims who had taken refuge in the al-Aqsa mosque, ‘more than […]
Eyewitness Accounts of Crusaders attack on Jews in Cologne and Mainz, Germany “At the beginning of summer in the same year in which Peter, and Gottschalk, after collecting an army, had set out, there assembled in like fashion a large and innumerable host of Christians from diverse kingdoms and lands; namely, from the realms of […]
1050 The Temple Mount In a letter from the yeshiva (Ge’on Ya’agov) of Jerusalem to the communities in the diaspora [evidently those in Egypt], written in the middle of the eleventh century, we find the passage: ‘And from our God there befell His mercy upon us before the kingdom of Ishmael; at the time when […]
3,200 Years of Documented Presence of the Jewish People in the Land of Israel, Genesis 15:18-21 Persian Traveler Nasir-L-Khusrau wrote: ‘From all the countries of the Greeks and from other lands, the Christians and the Jews come up to Jerusalem in great numbers in order to make their visitation of the church [of the Holy […]
October 12, 1039 Temple Mount On Hosha ‘na rabba, or the eight day of the Feast of Tabernacles, Jews gathered on the Mount of Olives. Solomon ben Judah wrote “from the morrow after Hosha ‘na rabba or the light day of the Feast of Tabernacles” Source: A History of Palestine (p. 705). Moshe Gil. 1992.
Islamic Murder, Mayhem, and Mutilation In 1010 a certain monk, named John, seeking revenge against the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Zacharias, petitioned the caliph against the church and its wealth. El Hakim, who, it is said, was incensed at the alleged annual display of “miraculous fire,” formally directed the governor to. “Destroy the Church of El […]
The Temple Mount After the conquest of Jerusalem by the army of the Fatimid dynasty (969), The Temple Mount synagogue was used until the Jews were banished by Caliph al–Hakim in 1015. When a subsequent ruler canceled Hakim’s eviction order, the Jews again returned to this synagogue on the Temple Mount and worshipped there until […]