Sensible Repentance Within the Bounds of Moderation

A mere eight centuries after the fact, and less than eight decades after the most infamous outbreak of antisemitism in world history, the Church of England has deigned to apologise for its historic role in perpetuating prejudice against Jews. England was ethnically cleansed of Jews in 1290, when King Edward I expelled them from the country, having first prudently taxed and levied them to ruin because he was saving up for a Muslim-killing trip to Palestine. The nakba was eventually ended by Oliver Cromwell, who was tolerant of most sects other than Catholicism. Sixty-eight years before Edward's decree, under his pious predecessor Henry III, the English church held the Synod of Oxford, which forbade Christians to have social relations with Jews, forced Jews to wear identifying badges, and banned Jews from certain professions; and with characteristic promptitude, the Church of England has now decided that this anticipation of Nuremberg and Martin Luther may have been a bit of an indiscretion. A special service at Oxford is to be attended by a representative from Mussolini's pet city-state, realm of the Venerable Pacelli; as well as by the chief rabbi, who was ill-mannered enough to regret that Christians feel obliged even today to save Jews from the hell-fire which the Saviour repeatedly and explicitly promised to anyone who failed to heed Him.