When I take Hierosolyma with one of the Hellenic/Diadochi factions...

[antisocialmunky]

And I burn the Jewish temple down, does that make me a good role-player or utterly anti-semitic?

Not unless you let them revolt, then you besiege it, then you leave, and then you come back and build the colliseum in Rome.

[CaesarAugustus]

Well I'm not sure if that's the best roleplaying, simply because burning down the Jewish Temple isn't the best way to pacify the population, whihc I'm sure would have been the first concern of any conqueror... Personally I would have waited and if they revolted, goodbye temple. Then again, the coin idea was clever, I always tend to exterminate the city when my general has the Bloodthirst trait.