Thanks, I was just about to do a little research on this but it definitely did not ring true to me for Dr. Franklin. I think that there was very little anti-Semetism in that era and that probably anti-Catholicism was more prevalent (outside Maryland).
I have serious doubts of Gaza academics being accurate on any of these subjects. Last I heard, they were still 'Ga-ga' on the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" fakery from Czarist Russia.
Muslims also claim that they discovered America before Columbus.