The perpetrators of this were the mobs that were inspired to join a “people’s” crusade, and they were living off the land as they marched to Constantinople. Their looting and pillaging was not confined to the Jews, although the hated Jews had the most money to steal. It is well to note that when the mobs appeared in Constantinople, the Greeks transported them across the Straits where they were slaughtered by the Turks.
Correct. The “Four Myths” are just that and important to remember. But the murder of Jews in Europe as well as elsewhere is not one of the myths. To Jews, those thousands of lives were a major disaster, and the beginning of hundreds of years of persecution. In the overall bloodbath of Christians and Muslims, hardly noticed.
***the Greeks transported them across the Straits where they were slaughtered by the Turks.***
Wasn’t that Peter the Hermit’s group?