Why do catholics defend jews so much?
This is 1.4B people, you cannot deflect by cherrypicking random tiny american protestants.

>>17785851 (OP)
Because distinctions make all the difference.

>Jews killed Christ
Here's what the document says:
>True, the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ;(13) still, what happened in His passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today.

>legitimacy of Judaism
Here's what the document further says:
>Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures.

>anti-semitism
From the document:
>Furthermore, in her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html