Let’s not get overexcited: the twelfth century wasn’t exactly woke, but the various Jewish minorities around western Europe were generally left alone. Then, in the following century, the mood changed. It’s one of the many historical examples of the weird way antisemitism waxes and wanes for no clear reason, with little warning and with cataclysmic consequences for Jewish people. It’s why those who nowadays accuse Jews of hysterical sensitivity to the slightest undercurrent of antisemitism need a fucking history lesson.
