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Christ did not leave us with a Bible and instructions to form our own churches whenever the existing clergy scandalize us. He founded His Church: “Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18). St. Paul calls that Church “the pillar and ground of the truth” (1 Timothy 3:15) and commands Christians to “hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle” (2 Thessalonians 2:14). Christianity is not me, my Bible, and whatever congregation I decide to assemble.

Corrupt clergy, abuse, bad architecture, and faithless churchmen are real scandals, but none of them nullifies Christ's promises or gives us authority to found another church. Judas did not invalidate the Apostolic Church, and bad successors cannot overthrow what Christ established. Expose genuine corruption where there is evidence, certainly—but don't turn allegations about “Satanist infiltrators” into claims of fact without proof.

And absolutely reject the last part of your comment. “Impale them” is not Christianity. Error is answered with truth, prayer, correction, and lawful action—not murder. Christ rebuked Peter for taking up the sword and commanded: “Put up again thy sword into its place: for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword” (Matthew 26:52). We defend the Faith precisely by remaining faithful to Christ when others are not.

Because they need to believe in "the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church" and that their Church is the same Church that was said by Jesus to Peter. That's it. That's the one crutch of their entire belief system. The good news is, before 1500s, this was true. It's certainly the pre-1500s Catholic Church and not the Orthodox Church, and it's not a Protestant Church without Sacraments, but it's also not today's jewed Vatican II heresy or the belief that non-Whites were created by God and thus eligible for salvation. So whatever Church out there that still does the Sacraments while also knowing nons, especially jews, cannot and have never been Christian is that Church that Jesus made the promise to.

From a Catholic perspective, no. Catholics are not justified in declaring war on Jews as a people.

Catholicism permits vigorous opposition to actual errors, injustices, ideologies, organizations, or governments. We can oppose rabbinic Judaism theologically, Zionism politically and theologically, usury economically, pornography morally, or a particular Israeli policy, and oppose the Jews that push it, but this doesn't mean we can advocate making them military targets. Collective racial or religious guilt does not turn civilians into legitimate military targets.

Catholic just-war doctrine is also not “we believe this group threatens us, therefore we may attack it.” Public authority may use force against a genuine aggressor under stringent conditions of necessity, proportionality, discrimination between combatants and innocents, and a just intention aimed at restoring peace. Private individuals certainly have no authority to announce a racial or religious war.

Scripture itself rules out hatred as the Christian response. St. Paul warns Gentile Christians concerning unbelieving Israel: “Boast not against the branches” (Romans 11:18), and immediately reminds them that the natural branches can be grafted in again (Romans 11:23). He even foretells Israel's future conversion: “And so all Israel should be saved” (Romans 11:26). The traditional Catholic objective is therefore ultimately conversion, not extermination.

And Christ commands something considerably harder than destroying those we regard as enemies: “Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you” (Matthew 5:44).

None of that requires religious indifferentism or pretending that every political accusation is false. Investigate particular claims. Name particular offenders. Name the Jew. Oppose demonstrable injustice. Prosecute crimes through lawful authority. Defend innocent people against actual aggression when necessary. Refute Judaism where it contradicts Christ. Educate people on the enmity. But do not use it to justify war against an entire people, where individual Jews could convert if we missionized instead.

Declaring war is neither Catholic justice nor the Adversus Judaeos tradition. The Church's controversy with unbelieving Judaism is ordered toward the triumph of Christ and the salvation of souls—not a racial war.