“Despite everything I believe that people are truly good at heart. I simply cannot build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery, and death” (Snyder 244). Despite attacks on their religion, designed to weaken and destroy Judaism, many Jews maintained their faith by trusting in God to overcome all the frightening events that occurred in their lives. Over the centuries the Jews moved from one place to another; mainly due to exclusion and prejudice against them (Levy 8). They were distinguished by religious differences, cultural differences, along with many others by many over a long period of time. In 70 AD, when most of the Jews in Palestine under the Romans rebelled, creating a Jewish diaspora (Levy 8). The diaspora is the dispersion of the Jewish people from their ancient lands of origin in the Middle East area. When they left, most of the Jews went to Europe and North Africa. This event started all the problems people have with Jews (Levy 8). When the Romans adopted Christianity as their official religion at the end of the 4th century, life began to get tough for the Jews especially after the fall of Rome (Boas 4). The Christians blamed the Jews for the crucifixion of Christ Jesus and began enforcing laws that would not allow the Jews to own land or weapons (Boas 4). Throughout the Middle Ages, Jews had a difficult and challenging life. At that time most Jews lived in Western Europe, where Christians were rulers and had a lot of power (Carr). Jews were actually accused of killing Christian children; some even say they used children's blood to make bread (Levy 8). This false accusation came to be called blood libel (Levy 8). The main reason why the kings and rulers of the time did not hate the Jews was that in the mid-nineteenth century most Germans thought that the Jews needed to be removed from Germany for it to be prosperous and successful (Levy 12). Jews are slowly starting to be blamed and feared as an economic danger, as they were before (Levy 10). Many Europeans thought that the Jewish people could never be “true” and loyal citizens to Europe or to the place they happened to live in (Levy 10). By the end of the nineteenth century, Jews had been hunted down and massacred by the thousands across Europe, restricted on some things, still responsible for the death of Jesus Christ, and conspirators against Christians and Europe in general (Levy 13). Some countries were even trying to establish a political movement that would seek to create a new Jewish homeland for Jews, preferably in Palestine. This act is called Zionism, but unfortunately it did not work.