What is the REAL reason so many hate the Jews?

Question

There is no doubt that there has always been a negative world view on the Jews. But what REALLY drives the hatred towards Jews? I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR REAL EDUCATED ANSWERS. It would be even more interesting to hear from people that ACTUALLY hate the Jews. Do you hate ALL Jews? Do you even know ANY Jews? If so, why do you hate them? Please answer with specific facts, not assumptions or stereotypes you have heard.

I would truly like to get to the bottom of anti-semitism. I think there are no REAL reasons for the hatred. All the "popular" stereotypes: Jews rule the World......Jews have all the money.....Jews have horns on their headd... Jews wnat to take over the world etc... are obviously false and no one can prove any of this crap. So I would like to hear from people that can actually THINK and come up with an answer. I WILL GO OUT ON A LIMB AND SAY THAT IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT YOU WILL COME TO REALIZE THAT YOU HATE FOR NO REASON.

I am only going to waste but a minute of my time to respond to the posting of "SEVEN B". Yes, you a Jew hater and probably a hater of everything not in tuned with your warped thinking. Too bad you spend your time looking for works of other morbid haters to post. And you COMPLETELY misquote those sayings you CLAIM to be from Jewish books.

Ritual Murders???? HAHAHAHAHA You poor thing. I pity you!!! Whoever controls your mind with these absurd things is to blame, I know. You are a victim. And I am truly sorry for you.

Answer 1

These anti-Semitic accounts in the New Testament have taught mankind to hate the Jew. As long as the New Testament continues in print (at least in its present form) the Jew will be hated. Here are but a few verses from where Christianity borrowed its anti-Semitic sentiments.

“The children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 8.12)

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold your house is left unto you desolate.” (Matthew 23.37,38) Then answered all the people (Jews) and said, “His blood be on us and on our children” (Matthew 27:25). 1 “But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you to councils, and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten” (Mark 13.9)

“He that believeth not shall be damned” (Mark 16.16)

“Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And I say the truth, why do you not believe me? He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God” (John 8.43-47)

“Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so you do. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers” (Acts 7.51-53)

“It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing you put it from you and judge yourself unworthy of everlasting life, we turn to the Gentiles” (Acts 13.45-51)

“For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake ... wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.” (Titus 1.10-14).

“The Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God and are contrary to all men: forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.” (l Thessalonians 2.14-16)

“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is an antichrist, that denieth the father and the son. Whoever denieth the son, the same hath not the father” (l John 2.22,23)

“I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan ...” (Revelation 2.9,10)

“Behold I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews and are not but do lie; behold I will make them to come and worship before thy feet...” (Revelation 3.9)

now examine the words of some Christian “saints” and leaders and notice how their anti-Jewish expressions are based on New Testament verses listed earlier in this article.

Origen: “Their rejection of Jesus has resulted in their present calamity and exile. We say with confidence that they will never be restored to their former condition. For they have committed a crime of the most unhallowed kind, in conspiring against the saviour.”

St. Gregory: “ Jews are slayers of the Lord, murderers of the prophets, enemies of God, haters of God, adversaries of grace, enemies of their fathers’ faith, advocates of the devil, brood of vipers, slanderers, scoffers, men of darkened minds, leaven of the Pharisees, congregation of demons, sinners, wicked men, stoners and haters of goodness.”

St. Jerome: “....serpents, haters of all men, their image is Judas ... their psalms and prayers are the braying of donkeys..”

St. John Chrysostom: “I know that many people hold a high regard for the Jews and consider their way of life worthy of respect at the present time... This is why I am hurrying to pull up this fatal notion by the roots ... A place where a whore stands on display is a whorehouse. What is more, the synagogue is not only a whorehouse and a theater; it is also a den of thieves and a haunt of wild animals ... not the cave of a wild animal merely, but of an unclean wild animal ... When animals are unfit for work, they are marked for slaughter, and this is the very thing which the Jews have experienced. By making themselves unfit for work, they have become ready for slaughter. This is why Christ said: “ask for my enemies, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them and slay them before me’ (Luke 19.27).”

St. Augustine: “Judaism is a corruption. Indeed Judas is the image of the Jewish people. Their understanding of the Scriptures is carnal. They bear the guilt for the death of the saviour, for through their fathers they have killed the Christ.”

St. Thomas Aquinas: “It would be licit to hold Jews, because of the crimes, in perpetual servitude, and therefore the princes may regard the possessions of Jews as belonging to the State.”

The teachings of Martin Luther:

“Know, 0 adored Christ, and make no mistake, that aside from the Devil, you have no enemy more venomous, more desperate, more bitter, than a true Jew who truly seeks to be a Jew... a Jew, a Jewish heart, are hard as wood, as stone, as iron, as the Devil himself. In short, they are children of the Devil, condemned to the flames of hell.”

“O Lord, I am too feeble to mock such devils. I would do so, but they are much stronger than I in raillery, and they have a God who is a past master in this art; He is called the devil and the wicked spirit.. They have transformed God into the devil, or rather into a servant of the Devil, accomplishing all the evil the Devil desires, corrupting unhappy souls , and raging against himself: in short, the Jews are worse than the devils.”

“What then shall we Christians do with this damned, rejected race of Jews? First, their synagogues should be set on fire, and whatever does not burn up should be covered or spread over with dirt so that no one may ever be able to see a cinder or stone of it. And this ought to be done for the honour of God and of Christianity, in order that God may see that we are true Christians. Secondly, their homes should be likewise broken down and destroyed. Thirdly, they should be deprived of their prayerbooks and talmuds in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught. Fourthly, their rabbis must be forbidden under threats of death to teach anymore.”

“Now whoever wishes to accept venomous serpents, desperate enemies of the lord, and to honor them, to let himself be robbed, pillaged, corrupted and cursed by them, need only turn to the Jews. If this is not enough for him, he can do more: crawl up into their...... and worship the sanctuary, so as to glorify himself afterwards for having been merciful, for having fortified the Devil and his children, in order to blaspheme our beloved lord and the precious blood that has redeemed us. He will then be a perfect Christian, filled with works of mercy, for which Christ will reward him on the-day of judgment with the eternal fire of hell (where he will roast together with the Jews).”

“In truth, the Jews, being foreigners, should possess nothing, and what they do possess should be ours.”

“...Cursed goy that I am, I cannot understand how they manage to be so skillful, unless I think that when Judas Iscariot hanged himself, his guts burst and emptied. Perhaps the Jews sent their servants with plates of silver and pots of gold to gather up Judas’ piss with the other treasures, and then they ate and drank his offal, and thereby acquired eyes so piercing that they discover in the scriptures commentaries that neither Matthew nor Isaiah himself found there, not to mention the rest of us cursed goyim..”

“If I find a Jew to baptize, I shall lead him to the Elbe bridge, hang a stone around his neck, and push him into the water, baptizing him with the name of Avraham!.. I cannot convert the Jews. Our lord Christ did not succeed in doing so; but I can close their mouths so that there will be nothing for them to do but to lie upon the ground.”

“I hope I shall never be so stupid as to be circumcised; I would rather cut off the left breast of my Catherine and of all women.”

“If we are to remain unsullied by the blasphemy of the Jews and not wish to take part in it, we must be separated from them and they must be driven out of their country.”

These anti-semitic words uttered by popes, priests, pastors and laymen, were put into action by unruly Christian mobs and later by Hitler’s followers.

Over time, Christian anti-Semitism acquired a racial dimension along with its religious thrust. This had significant consequences. After all, when Jew-hating was rooted in religion, a Jew could convert to Christianity and become, as it were, fully kosher. But when states began forcing Jews to convert—or face expulsion or execution—the authenticity of the Jews’ conversions became suspect. After Christians conquered Spain from the Muslims in 1492, they forced Jews and Muslims to convert, flee, or die. Many Jews converted yet practiced their old faith secretly, leading church officials to make new rules discriminating against all so-called conversos.

In the 19th century, anti-Semitism became increasingly racialized. The Enlightenment certainly made life better for Jews, at least in Western Europe, where religious tolerance took hold. Yet the Enlightenment also brought new “scientific”—or, as we now say, pseudoscientific—notions that human beings belonged to different races, some superior to others. Under these notions, Jews (as well as Africans, Arabs, and others) were deemed to be biologically and thus immutably inferior to white or “Aryan” Europeans.

Alongside racism, 19th-century Europe also saw the spread of nationalism: the idea that every people deserved its own state. Nationalism served to justify the repression of “alien” peoples, especially Jews—not just in eastern Europe, where Jews lived in ghettos, insulated from their Polish or Russian compatriots, but even in Western Europe, where many Jews were assimilated and considered themselves full citizens of their countries. This new form of ideological anti-Semitism—seeing the Jews as an alien and inferior people amid Christian European nations—finally got its name in 1879, thanks to an Austrian journalist named Wilhelm Marr.

By this point, the ideology of anti-Semitism had bred elaborate theories about the Jewish people’s evil. In some cases, ancient religious bigotries were updated, as in the “blood libel” that Jews killed Christian children to use their blood in making Passover matzot. (In Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ukraine, and elsewhere, Jews were actually tried in court on such charges.) In other cases, the slanders were new, as with the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a document fabricated by Russian secret police that purported to divulge the Jews’ conspiratorial plans for world domination.

Until the late 19th century, anti-Semitism as an ideology remained largely absent from Arab and Muslim culture. In the Quran and in Islamic commentary, Jews are significant not for rejecting Muhammad but for succumbing to his followers. In Arab literature, they are sometimes portrayed as hostile or vindictive, but their humility and weakness is a much more common theme. Islamic governments did not often persecute Jews either, the way European states did, and when Jews faced discrimination, it was no different from what Christians endured. Unlike in Europe, Jews in Islamic lands were not expelled or forced to convert or, with a few exceptions, consigned to ghettos.

That all started to change around 1900. First, colonialism brought a growing European influence into the region, and both political and religious authorities from Europe promoted the idea that Jews engaged in ritual murders. Second, traditional Islamic authority was under challenge from Western liberalism, and the Jews provided a convenient scapegoat. During the 1908 Turkish revolution, the so-called Young Turks seized power in the Ottoman Empire and installed a constitutional regime that expanded freedom of religion. In arguing against the revolution, Muslim conservatives latched onto anti-Semitic propaganda, claiming that secret Jewish machinations lay behind the new regime.

Finally, there was Zionism. Starting in the mid-1800s, Jews turned to Zionism—their own nationalism—as a solution to escalating European persecution. Since biblical times, Jews had maintained a small presence in the ancient kingdom of Judea (which in the late 19th century Europeans began calling Palestine), and Zionists saw the land as the ideal refuge for them, a Jewish National Home.

Zionist immigration began in earnest in the 1880s, and soon Jewish settlers ran into conflicts with local Arabs. At first, however, the friction centered on grazing rights, land titles, and other property matters; it didn’t carry nationalist or religious overtones. Yet as crude anti-Semitic ideas circulated more widely, the view of Jews as greedy, devious, and bent on world domination became bound up with the Arab critique of Zionism. Possibly the first major expression of the now-common view that Jewish settlement was really a beachhead for a takeover of the region was published in 1909 by the Turkish journalist Yunus Nadi, who warned—without any evidence at all—that the Jews aimed to establish “an Israelite kingdom comprising the ancient states of Babel and Nineveh, with Jerusalem at its center.” The conspiratorial notion of the Jews as plotting to take over the world quickly developed.

Then came the Holocaust, which not only marked the pinnacle of European anti-Semitism but encouraged it in the Arab world as well. Because Arab leaders shared the Germans’ hostility to Britain and France—the dominant colonial powers in the Middle East—they were eager to make common cause with Hitler, despite Nazi belief that they, like the Jews, were inferior to Aryans. The mufti of Jerusalem, among others, actively spread propaganda about “Anglo-Saxon Jewish greed” while praising the Nazi war effort. Even years later, sympathy for Nazism could be easily found in Arab culture. When Israel apprehended Adolf Eichmann in 1960, a Saudi newspaper headline read, “Capture of Eichmann, Who Had the Honor of Killing Five Million Jews.”

If the Holocaust nurtured Arab anti-Semitism, it also helped to discredit such bigotry in the West. Indeed, it helped mobilize support for a Jewish state internationally. In 1948, Israel was finally granted independence. As if to welcome their new neighbor into the region, the Arab countries promptly invaded. Israel repulsed the attacks, and in the three Arab-Israeli wars that followed (1956, 1967, 1973), the Jewish state managed to survive and even to expand its territory. Most controversially, it took over the Gaza Strip from Egypt and the West Bank from Jordan, which were home to large numbers of Palestinian Arabs.

With Israel’s military successes and its willingness to occupy Arab lands until a peace treaty could be struck, Arab anti-Semitism hardened into official doctrine, as it has remained for many decades now. Propagandists, looking to rationalize their losses to a supposedly inferior people, came to depict the Jews as craven lackeys of a mightier power—the United States—a theme that can be heard in Osama Bin Laden’s rhetoric today. And it was not just propaganda: Arab countries passed laws that discriminate not against Israelis or Zionists but against all Jews, simply for being Jews.

Islamic teaching, too, has been radically retrofitted to accommodate the new anti-Semitism. Whereas traditional Muslim accounts depict the fate of the Jews as tragic, that of a people too benighted to follow Muhammad the Prophet, current Muslim scholarship in the Arab world imaginatively rereads the Quran for evidence of the Jews’ devilish nature. Meanwhile, films showing sympathy for the Jews or depicting the Holocaust are censored, while staples of old-fashioned European anti-Semitism—cartoons portraying greedy hook-nosed Jews, popular novels with conspiratorial Jewish villains, public lectures drawing on phony scholarship like the Protocols—became staples of the new Arab culture.

Answer 2

I am a Jew, and nobody who is alive today could provide a reasonable rationale for this hatred based on their own experiences. The root of this could be traced back to Rome. (There was probably anti-semitism before, but that is beyond what I know.) When the New Testament was being written, a part about the Jews killing Jesus was included. (Ironically, the account claimed that the Jews executed Jesus Roman-style.) Probably in an effort to seperate themselves from the Jews, these Christians added stuff to the Bible that made the Jews look bad. Just about all anti-semitism can be traced back to being an effect of the crucifiction story. Some Muslims are also anti-semites. Part of the cause for this is the crucifiction story. The other is hatred by the writers of the Qu'ran. The Qu'ran says that Allah cursed the Jews and that they are evil. This has ha an effect on the Muslim world. (The passage, I think, is in the 4th book of the Qu'ran, but it may be in the 2nd. These two parts are entitled the Cow and the Woman, but I forget which title goes with which book.) As for anti-semitism in non-Christian and non-Muslim areas, it's a result of cultural diffusion.

After many generations, this intolerance was passed down from parents to children.

Despite what I said above, the idea of Jews having horns is based on a mistranslation from the Torah. At one point, Moses speaks to God and his face glows. However, when translated literally, the text says that Moses' face was glowing with horns of light. (The word in Hebrew for ray is the same word as the one for horn.) This mistranslation led to the stereotype.

I'd like to take a moment to rebut the argument by shirtees.net. Israel is not completely Jewish and it has only existed since 1948. Anti-Semitism came first. Remember, Kristalnacht came ten years earlier. Jews are perceived as greedy and rich, but that's a result of Catholicism in the Middle Ages. Catholics weren't allowed to lend money for a profit, so the Jews lent money, leading to a different view on money. The idea of Jews controlling the media is false, but I will admit that Jews control a disproportionate amount of it. (That means at least 2% of the American media.) If Jews controlled the media, why would there be so many Christmas specials. As for the kosher thing, that costs money regardless of whether or not anyone buys the product, so your explanation was a little inaccurate, but the general idea is correct. However, nobody's forcing you to buy kosher food. As for Greenspan and his replacement, 2 Jews managing the economy is noteworthy, but it's nothing compared to 43 consecutive Christian presidents. As for Bush surrounding himself with Jews, that's a lie. Bush's support is coming mainly from Christians, especially evangelicals. Besides, generally Jews are liberal, so why would we associate ourselves with a conservative who is strongly influenced by Christianity?

Answer 3

I personally don't like or trust the Jews. They do have monopoly over the entertainment media, education, banking and International banking. They are mostly CEOs and CFOs and are to blame for the current oil problems (They outsourced so many jobs to India and China, building those economies, which is why they have a greater need for oil. Stiffing the American workers out of a job and keeping the poor, poor but employed in Third World Countries, but paying them significantly less)
Since the run the Entertainment Media, they are all over Mel Gibson for his "liquid courage" comments. They loathe the fact that Mel Gibson show Jews in their true light from the very beginning. When other stars made racial comments, towards Japanese, Koreans, Arabs, etc, the media may have mentioned it, but they weren't all over it.

Answer 4

The fact is that Jews are no different than anyone else. I've known far more "poor" Jews than I have wealthy Jews. Most of the Jews immigrating to Israel lived in slums and have very little money.

Jews are historically discriminated against because fundamentalist (orthodox) Jews do not attempt to assimilate into the surrounding community. It would not matter what they were, anyone who refuses to interact with his neighbors is viewed with mistrust & suspicion.

That is the foundation of (orthodox) Judaism and leads to discrimination. But, they discriminate against their neighbors, so you might consider it equal justice.

And, that is the basis for "anti-Semitism."

(This is intended to be a very simplistic summary, there are many more less relevant factors, but that is the primary one)

Answer 5

I really don't hate Jew's, thou I dislike their way's of seeing my self, and others that as a non-Jew's, as well that because of that they seams to think that they are better, of course the elected race, and I shouldn't be seeing nor respected as a person a/o us a human being that it has non-Jewish believes?. Any Jew, will try to challenge your self, not matter what even only if will appeared that you can be a person with better standards anda solid education in your own believes and religion. which I will tray always to keep out way from my religion only until the catholic church could take control of politics and of the state also, as use to be. and that they don't like.

Answer 6

God began The Nation of Israel, through Abraham, and chose them as His people. Through them all had The Way to come to God. As today, mankind,for the most part, wants to do things their way. Satan, who is the prince of this world, uses mans nature to want it their way to decieve tthem from God's Way.

Man,being lazy, wants an easy way. God's Way is not easy. But the rewards of God's Way are Greater. So, when the nation of Israel prospered. every one else got greeedy and want ed to take it from them.

When The Nation of Israel rejected God's final Sacrifice on man's behalf, many of those of The Church used that as another way to take from the jews that wich they had. Satan again, this time using the ignorence of many who claimed to be "christian", lnfluenced many into hating the jews...

This all will not end untill the end of the earth and God's establishing the New Earth.

Hate dose indeed usualy have a reason... just not a good reason.
For those of The True Christian Faith, hate is not an option. Most espacialy towards the Nation of Israel (the jews). The Christian Lord and Master is, after all, King of The Jews still.

Answer 7

I think the real reason is that the Jewish nation wanted Jesus killed. They had a chance to agree to releasing Barabbas or Jesus. They chose Jesus to die, because one, they were instigated by the Jewish leaders who wanted Jesus to stop preaching about his Kingdom message, and two, Jesus did not come across as the mighty warrior king that they were expecting to overthrow the Roman empire. Jesus was to them a mere carpenter's son.So the rest of the world's religions who believe that Jesus is the Messiah have condemned the Jews for this decision.

Answer 8

I DO NOT HATE JEWS,but from all the research i have done,most people blame the Jews for killing Jesus,and if there knew anything about the Bible they would know we all killed Jesus,he went willingly to the cross to die for our sins,and the people that hate Jews or ignorant of the bible

Answer 9

many people caracature people they do not know

some of it is shallowness

some of it from Christians is lack of appreciation for thier Jewish heritage and the scriptures the Jews presereved

disagreeing with someone or telling them about Jesus may be speakign the truth in love and not hating someone

probably many reasons

Answer 10

I don't have any insight on why this is true, but I just wanted to say that I have nothing against Jews.

Answer 11

I dont directly hate all jews in particular. I have ..let me count... 3 jewish friends. They dont seem different from me and they like to talk sh!t about other religions too. They arent any different.

The real reasons why people hate them? Maybe becuase they tend to be so well organized. Look at Germany, Russia, Poland, Italy, France and UK... theyve all had their problems with jewish people and tried to get rid of them. Germany being the biggest out in the open example of trying to get rid of the jews.

Jewish people take control of the media (movies, news, print, theatre, etc) to re-shape peoples viewpoints. Do you REALLY hate muslim people? Were they REALLY bad before we invaded Iraq? Sure muslims want to kill christians and frankly anyone who is not muslim... but, I really hadnt seem them killing anyone unless it was provoked. Such as Israel secretly going into Lebenon. Jewish people are smart with their money and control financial institutions. If you think Im wrong, check out whos running America... Greenspan was Jewish, and now the new guy Chertoff is too.. oh wait... thats one of the many people surrounding Bush and helping Bush make the US policy against muslims.

Jewish people are clever. Smart with money, smart with media and smart all around. I give them credit. They even make tax off of just about EVERYTHING you buy in the stores these days. From window cleaners to foods... if its marked "kosher" you are paying a tiny tax to jewish organisations. Smart eh? That little "K" symbol or KSA or U surrounded by a circle all are different jewish organisations certifying food as kosher... which of course means some money was transferred to get that certification.

Germany didnt like jews becuase they took over the theatre and news print there. They also took over financial institutions as well. After WWI, mostly jewish people helped in the cease fire and forced Germany to pay fines and reperations to other surrounding countries for the next 80 or 90 years. Smart for Jews, dumb for Germans. All that built up and led to WWII when Hitler decided that his country didnt want to pay those fines any longer.

Its not just the germans tho. Russia tried to get rid of the jews too before WWI. When it didnt work, the jewish revolution led by Lenin/Trostsky/Stalin controlled and massacred russian orthodox christians until the early 1990s... Ive visited a memorial in Kiev, Ukraine for the 60 million people killed by the communists.

Yah, people dont like jews... What jew gonna do about it?

Thats all history tho... isnt it easier just to get along instead of making bombs to kill everyone? Ohh wait... the jews around Bush have him selling weapons to Syria now. Just read it in the paper. Who do you think is making money off of all that? We sell weapons to Israel and now Syria. They kill each other off, while America profits.