How Can we eliminate or minimize antisemitism in Christianity?

I think it would be useful to distinguish Anti-Semitism (modern, basically race/language-based, and theoretically incompatible with even a cursory reading of Christian scripture) and Anti-Judaism (quite old, primarily religious-based, and historically connected with Christianity). Of course, the distinction is not entirely clear-cut, and you see people, including Christian clergymen, espousing views that don't fit cleanly on either side of this distinction, particularly in the late nineteenth century.
Also, the Spanish limpieza de sangre ideology can be viewed as a bridge between the two. Still, the traditional Christian (and to a lesser extent, Islamic) hostility is far cry from obsessive racial hatred of the Nazi sort, and the two are only remotely related in the end.
I would argue that both are rooted in social and cultural factors that are not directly related to Christian doctrine, but it is hard to deny that Christians in Europe tended to view Jewish minorities with general hostility that was grounded also in religious discourse, and at times legitimized by clergy (although never, to my knowledge, with official Papal sanction).
 
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