Why do some people hate Jewish people? I am not racist, this is a serious question. I am a Christian.?

Question

I have never understood what happened in history that caused this hatred. I guess the Mel Gibson comments brought this to my mind.

Answer 1

The Jewish people were lead from bondage by Egypt. Moses never made it to the Promised Land but the Jews eventually did. However, their reign was short. During the times of Jesus the Roman Empire controlled most of the Middle East, including the homelands of the Jewish people. Once again they were in bondage. The Jews thought that the messiah would deliver them from bondage. Jesus didn't do that.

In the Jewish religion Jesus was just another profit, not the Messiah. For this little difference in faith they have been hated and turned into scapegoats for centuries. Some of those racists probably don't even know the real reason for that hatred. Humans fear people who are different, and Jews are. So some people can fear Jews, and these people hate the Jews because of that fear.

To me this is a pretty little difference after all both religions agree on the Old Testament. Both religions agree that Jesus was a profit, but Jews don't think he was god.

Yes, you can blame the Jews for having Jesus killed, but that was an important part of the master plan. If Jesus hadn’t been crucified then his rising from the dead wouldn’t have been as important. If he had lived to old age and died a normal death there would have been little knowledge of this, and few people would have cared. So his rising from the dead wouldn’t have been a big deal. Since he died so publicly though his rising from the dead had a great impact. Judas the 13th apostle did the same thing and is reviled for it. Since he was considered the 13th apostle that made the number 13 an unlucky one. He was acting as part of the divine plan though. If Judas hadn’t done what he had done then Jesus’ resurrection wouldn’t have been a major event. So blaming him and the Jews makes about as much sense as blaming the hammer that hit your thumb and not the nail you are holding.

Religions are notorious for making mountains out of molehills. The Shiites and Sunnis are almost at each other's throats in Iraq. They are both Moslems, but they want to kill each other. That's one reason why Sadam was such a brutal dictator. He had to keep the Sunnis, the Shiites and the Kurds in line.

According to Wikipedia here is the difference between the Shiites and the Sunnis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Shi%27a-Sunni_relations#Origins_of_the_schism
"Shias record the start of the schism with the death of Muhammad, and in their view, a violent coup d'état against Ali in his first day as caliph, which they argue was automatic without recourse to an election or a formal investiture. After that, Shias contend that they were systematically persecuted and killed by the first three Caliphs of Islam, with a brief respite ensuing during the caliphate of Ali, although he was at constant war with those the Shia regarded as their enemies. Sunnis hold that the schism did not begin at the accession of the first Caliph, Abu Bakr, since Ali ultimately swore allegiance and served all his predecessors before his own accession. Sunnis in general reject dynastic claims of the Prophet's household to the Caliphate. They hold that First Islamic civil war between Ali and the Umayyad Muawiyah I, whose 20 year rule Shias regard as the most difficult in early Islam, marked the beginning of the breach. For more detailed information, see Succession to Muhammad.

It is noteworthy that the terms "Shi'a" and "Sunni" were not yet in general usage at this time.”

In another words the Shiites felt persuceted after Muhammad’s death because they tried to oust the new Caliph Ali and he fought back. Suniis don’t think that the Moslim civil war started then, but later. They don’t think that Muhammed’s household tried to seize leadership. They don’t even agree when the mutual hatred started or why it did.

Answer 2

I guess Christian's are still mad that the Jewish never accepted Jesus (a jewish person) as the "Christ" ...and eventually tortured and killed him. I think the people in the war are mad because there land was taken away for them and given to the Jews a long time ago too.... so I guess there is a lot of bad blood for many reasons. I am a Christian, but I don't hate Jews.... I'm just telling you what I have heard. I am very interested in hearing the responses to this question. I really wish someone COULD explain why all the hate.

Answer 3

There is a museum in Los Angeles, it's called the Simon Weisenthal museum. It's about the Jewish people, the world's treatment of them, and the holocaust. It is a fascinating place, with a lot of "interactive" exhibits. There is a room that you walk through, and there are whispered insults coming at you from every side; names that people call each other (which I won't repeat here, but we've heard them before). it really gives you a sense of what it's like to be discriminated against. It describes the events that built up to Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jews. When I was walking around, I picked up on two emotions: fear and jealousy. That seemed to be the driving force behind those who seeked to eradicate them.

The same today? I don't know. But I found it very interesting what I "sensed" at the museum that day.

Answer 4

Good question. I don't have answers other than what the Bible says. The Bible says that the Jews are God's chosen people, the apple of His eye, His beloved. He made covenants to the nation of Israel that He has made with no other race. Throughout scripture, God has said that those who love Him will be hated by the world. This now applies not just to Jews but to Christians as well.

The world is at enmity with God, so those who are associated with Him through covenant or through faith will also be hated. Jesus said that this is one way to know that one is a disciple.

I'm not talking about overt hostility, as in shooting, torturing (although that has been done) or other acts of violence. However, there has been throughout history a kind of unreasoning anit-Semite attitude among non-Jews, and today in particular, has spread to Christianity. This has been foretold in scripture, and is coming to pass with greater intensity as time goes on.

Answer 5

Hating Jews may have been started by the Catholic Church in the Middle ages when because of Jewish attacks on the Catholic Faith, they said that Jews were evil because they killed Christ. However, Jews were not the kind of people you would like to live around in the middle ages and beyond. They were mean, selfish, money cheating bankers. They lived by themselves and didn't mix. They didn't honor the country they lived in but looked forward to the day when they would own their country.
I don't blame the Jews for this behavior...they had suffered all through History. They are a remarkable people.

Answer 6

First, jews are accused of killing Christ (and I thought the Romans had a hand in that).

Second, because of usury laws (fully explopited by Christian rulers), Jews were in banking and accused of bleeding people dry financially (Hitler used this lie when he rose to power)

Third, a racist diatribe "The Protocols of the Elders oZion" purports to be a plan for world Jewish domination (it is totally bogus and plagerized by a Russian anti-Semite).

These images lead people to hate the Jews.

Answer 7

same reason people hate in general. Because they are different than the person saying the negative comment. This is the same of all areas of life, we always fear/hate/descrimminate against that which we do not know or understand.

People should try more to imagine if they were born somewhere else that they would have different beliefs and views of the world

Answer 8

There's 2 significant facts:

1) They are God's first chosen people of Israel.
2) Some people believe that the Jews killed Jesus.

Shalom
dbd

Answer 9

Most is from hear say just like some people hear about blacks , browns and asians supposedly this and that assumptions at times people are to weak to find out the answers at times and believe there uncle joe or grandpa so an so, it's seems that arabs and jews argue about who was choosen to occupy the land and what makes it worse is the beliefs.

Answer 10

Because wherever jews are (except modern israel) they are a minority. This was especially true in europe in the middle ages, there were small dispersed groups of jews in many countries. If there is a minority group then ignorant people will ALWAYS blame them for their problems, as it is much easier to blame them than to blame themselves. As jews were an obvious minority group, and one of the only ones around in the middle ages (very few blacks and asians for instance) they were the subject of discrimination. Such backward beliefs are still held by some people today, and applied to various minority groups around the world.