Thomas Browne:

The Jew is obstinate in all fortunes; the persecutions of fifteene hundred yeares have but confirmed them in their errour: they have already endured whatsoever may be inflicted, and have suffered, in a bad cause, even to the condemnation of their enemies. Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion; It hath beene the unhappy method of angry devotions, not onely to confirme honest Religion, but wicked Heresies, and extravagant opinions.

To think that he wrote that before The Holocaust.