taken seriously

As the American scholar David Gitlitz has recently observed, allegations of such behavior appear "with such frequency in the literature, in so many widely-separated locales, and with such varied evidence, much of it eyewitness," that they cannot be dismissed as mere libels. Gitlitz has argued that the reports of cross-desecration by crypto-Jews, need to be taken seriously as expressions of their "negative feelings" toward the religion they pretended to observe, expressions that "ran the gamut from disbelief and scorn to the physical mistreatment of ... images." The crucifix, in particular, he has stressed, was targeted by crypto-Jews with great cynicism and hostility, both as an object of Christian idolatry and as emblem of that aspect of Christianity they found hardest to accept: the divinity of Christ." - Reckless Rites, pg 177-178

same argument as in Blood Passover