From the Maccabees to the Mishnah Quotes

“The persecution of Judaism by Epiphanes, the attack on Alexandrian Jewry by the mob, and the destruction of the temple by Titus were each caused by local factors and not by some deep-rooted “anti-Judaism.” Nevertheless, the literary propaganda spawned by these conflicts helped shape the “anti-Semitic” image of the Jew of later generations.”
― Shaye J.D. Cohen, From the Maccabees to the Mishnah