Were Yahudim Actually Forbidden from Entering Yahrushalam After the Bar Kokhba Revolt?

Period: after 135 CE · Emperor: Hadrian · Witnesses: Eusebius, Justin Martyr · City: Aelia Capitolina

What the ancient record says

Ancient sources report Yahudim prohibited from entering the city after the revolt. Eusebius (Ecclesiastical History 4.6): Hadrian issued commands preventing the people from approaching the territory around Yahrushalam, English translations describe them forbidden even to look upon their ancestral land from a distance.

Justin Martyr (writing in the second century, close to the aftermath): First Apology 47 refers to the devastated land and says none of the Yahudim were permitted to enter Yahrushalam; Dialogue with Trypho 16 again refers to their inability to enter. So the exclusion is known in second-century literature, not invented later.

Limitation: the clearest evidence concerns Yahrushalam/Aelia and its vicinity, do not silently expand a documented city prohibition into "every Yahudi permanently expelled from every part of the entire land." Later periods brought changes/exceptions; this card is the post-Bar Kokhba Hadrianic exclusion, not a claim of identical enforcement for every century.