When the Jews massacred their non-Jewish Cypriot neighbors, and by the tens of thousands!

What your oh-so-politically correct UTEP History of Western Civilization 3301 professor had better leave out of her (or his) lectures!

Source: Hill, Sir George, K.C.B., F.B.A. A History of Cyprus, Volume I. Cambridge, England: University Press, 1949.

Adapted from pages 241-243, including incorporating a foot note here and there where useful.

"The general peace of the island [ Cyprus ] under Roman rule was two or three times disturbed; indeed the Jewish insurrection of 115/6 [ AD ] was perhaps as grave a disaster as Cyprus ever suffered.

"There must must have been a considerable Jewish population in cities like Salamis ever since Ptolemaic times.

"Under Ptolemy I there seems to have been a considerable exodus from Palestine of Jews who settled in many places in the Eastern Mediterranean, and Cyprus must have had its share of such settlers.

"Towards the end of the end of the reign of Trajan, about 115/6 [AD], a wide-spread insurrection of Jews broke out in Cyrene, Egypt and Cyprus.

"In that island [Cyprus] the Jews, led by one Artemion, are said to have perpetrated unspeakable outrages, following the example which had been set to them in Cyrene and Egypt.

"It is said that the dead in Cyprus numbered 240,000, and that Salamis was utterly destroyed and the non-Jewish population exterminated.

"The figure has been questioned, considering the present population of the island, which is roughly 350,000.


"But Salamis was a very great city, and it has been calculated that the ancient aqueduct would serve some 120,000 inhabitants; so that double that number for the slain throughout the island is not incredible.

"We have no indication of how many of the dead were themselves Jews, killed in the suppression of the revolt.

"As a result of this outbreak, no Jew was allowed to set foot in the island [of Cyprus], and even those who were driven there by adverse winds were put to death.

"Such prohibitions, however, are apt to be relaxed after a time, and there is some probability that before long Jewish communities grew up again in the island."

Note:

The author gives us a lot of meticulous information regarding the original sources used by him and we can find it in his footnotes on all three of these pages, and this includes historical disputes over actual casualty estimates.