Cromwell had already executed his king before a rabbi ever petitioned him. How Manasseh ben Israel, the Whitehall Conference, and Jewish merchants disguised as Catholics reopened England to the Jews in 1655 — and the Glorious Revolution they helped finance in 1688.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Cold Open
0:05 – INTRODUCTION
1:45 – PART 1: A Kingdom Without a King
3:48 – PART 2: The Merchants Already Living Behind a Mask
5:32 – PART 3: The Petition and the Conference
8:20 – PART 4: A Protector’s Own Reasoning
10:41 – PART 5: Who Said No — and What Came After
14:45 – PART 6: What a Catholic Political Theology Sees Here
20:48 – CONCLUSION
📖 SOURCES FOR THIS VIDEO
Scripture
Romans 13:1 — Douay-Rheims
Deuteronomy 28:64 — Douay-Rheims
Primary Sources
Menasseh ben Israel, Humble Addresses to the Lord Protector (1655), incl. “A Declaration to the Commonwealth of England”
Menasseh ben Israel, Vindiciae Judaeorum (1656)
William Prynne, A Short Demurrer to the Jewes Long Discontinued Remitter into England (1656)
The Instrument of Government (1653), Article XXXVII
Whitehall Conference proceedings, December 1655 (Council of State records; Henry Jessey’s Narrative of the Late Proceeds at Whitehall, 1656)
Petition of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London to Charles II (1660)
Historical Scholarship
Lucien Wolf (ed.), Menasseh Ben Israel’s Mission to Oliver Cromwell (Jewish Historical Society of England, 1901)
Barbara Coulton, “Cromwell and the ‘Readmission’ of the Jews to England, 1656”
Cecil Roth, David S. Katz, and Todd Endelman — standard Anglo-Jewish historiography on the 1688 Suasso loan
Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) — entries on Antonio Fernandez Carvajal, Oliver Cromwell, Menasseh ben Israel, and “Banking”
Catholic / Magisterial
St. Thomas Aquinas, Letter on the Treatment of the Jews (trad. “to the Duchess of Brabant”; per some modern scholarship, likely to Margaret, Countess of Flanders), c. 1271
Pope Paul IV, Cum Nimis Absurdum (1555)
Fourth Lateran Council, Canon 67 (1215)
📚 Full Adversus Judaeos Library: https://christtheking.info/catholic-r…
⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This video presents historical theological sources for educational purposes. The teaching documented is theological/doctrinal opposition, not racial hatred. Individual Jews can convert and be saved. Violence against Jews is condemned.
