Are The Good Friday Prayers "anti Semitic"?

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[quote name='curtins' post='1310381' date='Jul 2 2007, 10:40 PM']my 2 cents and I know this has already been discussed:

If I were writing the prayer I wouldn't call the Jews "faithless". While I understand that is applying to faith in Christ, it doesn't say that in the prayer. It says faithless, not faithless in Christ. So its kinda broad. Is it anti semetic? absolutely not. I just thinks a bit uncharitable.[/quote]
I don't think that it makes sense to understand [i]perfidis [/i]in some broad sense of lacking faith or faithlessness since the context is specific to faith in Christ (which Jews no doubt lack). The end of the prayer says "that they also may acknowledge Our Lord Jesus Christ." It is a prayer for the Jews to be given faith in Christ and I don't see why the sense of [i]perfidis [/i]ought to be extended beyond this.