Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire,
Jews (1756)

....From [a] short summary of their history it results that the Hebrews have ever been vagrants or robbers, or slaves, or seditious.  They are still vagabonds upon the earth, abhorred by men....

It is commonly said that the abhorrence in which the Jews held other nations proceeded from their horror of idolatry; but it is much more likely that the manner in which they at the first exterminated som of the tribes of Canaan, and the hatred which the neighboring nation conceived for them, was the cause of this invincible aversion.  As they knew not nations but their neighbors, they thought that in abhorring them they detested the whole earth, and thus accustomed themselves to be the enemies of all men.

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You ask, what was the philosophy of the Hebrews?  The answer will be a short one -- they had none....In short, we find in them only an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched.  Still, we ought not to burn them.

The Works of Voltaire, trans. William F. Fleming (Akron, Ohio: The Werner Co., 1904), vol. 10, pp. 266-84.