i am not jewish. why does every dislike the jews?

Question

i don't get it. i don't have that problem

Answer 1

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

Everyone does not dislike Jews. I don't and you don't so there's at least two people. Jews don't dislike Jews so there are thousands more!
Jews often appear to think they have cornered the market on misery and prosecution by other races. They have not. The Holocaust was horrible. It should never have happened and I don't believe it will ever happen again. The Diaspora (the kidnap of thousand upon thousand of African's for the slave markets where only one in HUNDREDS survived the passage) only to live in servitude and disgrace, denied their culture, language, religion, and dignity should not have happened either. Its inhumane affects still impacts African Americans (and All Americans whether or not they want to admit it) socially and economically to this day.
Jews who survived the Holocaust kept their traditions and culture; and a lot of them, their money.
Religious conflicts give many people the impetus to dislike Jews. As a Christian, I love them. I would not have been adopted by Christ as the fulfillment of prophesy if they had kept God's laws and commandments. Further, Jesus was born of a Jewish girl and the Holy Ghost. How can I hate the heritage of my redeemer?
Many Jews don't accept Jesus as the messiah and this may be why some dislike them. However, the bible shows that Jesus will give them a time on earth after the tribulation period to accept him and rule with him.
Literature has through the ages protrayed Jews as money hungry spoilers of the world. Shakespears, The Merchant of Vienece, for example, has a self-righteous and greedy character called Shylock. This has been used as a derrogatory name for Jews by people who don't even know where the term came from.
Disliking any group of people based on bias, and not a case by case experience is wrong.
Hope I shed some light on the issue for you.

Answer 3

Back in the day, the Romans were considering adopting Christianity as their official religion (instead of the pagan gods like Jupiter). They had a problem, though. Christianity was a lot like Judaism, since Jesus was a Jew, his disciples were Jews, and they all followed the Torah (the Jewish Bible) and its commandments. Unfortunately for the Romans, the Jews also rebelled against Roman occupation. I guess even 2000 years ago, people didn't like being conquered by another country. That's why the Romans killed Jesus, since he was considered a rabble-rouser and a dangerous threat to their dominance.

So for Christianity to be accepted by the Romans, it was important to show a complete break between Christianity and Judaism, to show that they were totally different. So new gospels were written and new verses added to show that Jesus (whose name was acutally Yeshua ben Yosef) was killed by the Jews rather than by the Romans.

Since that time, the Jews have been persecuted and hated by Christians for 2000 years. They have been forced to wear special clothing, were unable to own land until the 1800s, and were butchered by hate-filled regimes in Russia and Germany.

Only recently have some Christians realized how stupid the hatred is. After all, Jesus talked about everyone having a place in God's love, Gentile or Jew, servant or free, woman or man. Unfortunately, most Christians grow up with preconceived notions and stereotypes of Jews that simply aren't true. In America, people grow up with stereotypes about blacks and Asian as well. It takes time, education, and interaction to realize that such thoughts are stupid.

The Muslims and Jews, on the other hand, lived in peace for many centuries until Arab hostility over the establishment of Israel began the present cycle of hatred. Many Jews who lived in Baghdad, Beirut, and Morocco were expelled from their homes and sent to Israel. Since that time, Arab students now read anti-Jewish slander written by the Nazis and other hate-filled people from the 1800's. One particularly vile book says that the Jews capture and kill a Christian child every year and drink its blood. This is absolutely not true!!! Yet many Muslims read it and believe it because they never hear the truth.

So don't be ignorant. I have had great friends of every religion: Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Shinto, Hindu, and pagan. One thing I've learned. Everybody just wants to make the world a happier, more liveable place for their children.

Answer 4

The dislike of Jews has many sources. In the 19th century people began to show a marked jealousy of Jews, in part because individual Jews ran the largest financial organizations in Europe and in part because the better educated Jews were among the elite in the sciences and literature. In the US we tend to stigmatize Asians for largely the same reason.

In the mostly Christian west Jews were the largest group of non-Christians, and thus a thorn to fundamentalist Christians.

Jewishness is a religious connection, not a national one, and it thus categories people in a way that crosses national boundaries. Because of this it was common for many to look at Jews as not being patriotic or loyal to the country they resided in. Inspite of the fact that a Jew -- like everyone else -- is also a citizen of a country, non-Jews tended to classify Jews as Jews instead of citizens of a country: "He's Jewish", not "He's British".

Interestingly, Catholics in the US were once more strongly identified as such instead of as US citizens. The "concern" among protestant fundamentalists was that Catholics would be more loyal to the pope than to the US. There was a minor to-do about this when JFK was elected as the first Catholic president in US history and presumably it has died down a bit since. Jews, however, still face this sort of hostility.

By the way I'm not Jewish and I'm not anti-semitic.

Answer 5

Congratulations to you for being so tolerant!I'm not Jewish but I agree, I don't get the whole anti-semeticism thing... maybe people think Jewish people are uppity because they say they are the Chosen People. I was with my sister the other day when she was getting her picture taken. The photographer was so nice and friendly and funny...I liked her a lot (not in a lesbian kind of way) and thought she did her job well. Then I noticed her necklace. It was the Star of David (Jewish symbol). I thought it was great that she was unafraid and so proud. It didn't change my opinion of her, I still thought she was cool; in fact I thought she was even cooler after that. So Jews themselves may not be peoples' problems, maybe they dislike the way of thinking or the beliefs. I don't know and I'm don't understand why...but it's prejudice and bad to me.

Answer 6

I don't know why people keep posting questions on here about why people hate Jews. I don't hate Jews. I don't know anyone that hates Jews. In college two of our professors were Jewish and they were very loved and favored. I know a few Jewish people where I live now, everyone seems to like them just fine. I would say the majority of people do no hate Jews.

Answer 7

Not everybody dislikes them! Most of America are with the Jews re: this war. (but this may be due to the biased reporting which goes on over there).

Truth be told, people who aren't liking the jews at the moment probably do so because of the politics and the action of the Israeli government in this war. I don't really want to give my own opinion, but I know a lot of my friends are completley against the action the Israeli's took in Lebanon and believe they acheived nothing but to further solidify the almost unanimous support the lebanese have for Hezbollah.

There has also been intense debates as to the treatment of the citizens who live in the west bank, which as you might know has been the longest military occupation of another land in modern times. I really think you should scour the net and read a book or two regarding Israel and the Palestinians and make your own mind up as to who's to blame.

Answer 8

Every1 loves Jews. Jesus was a Jew.
Virgin Mary was a Jew. 12 discples were Jews. Every is Jew.
We are taken over the world slowly but defeniatly.
And since GOD is a jew than heaven is only for Jews but i can sell you a few empty spots for a good price.

Anyway. Ppl just jelouse that Jew invented religion and mono GOD but they can't understand that anything happenes to Jews the whole islam and christianity will fall off since they bought into our idea of GOD. Nobody except Jews could invent such a beatifull idea of mono GOD. we are the best.

Answer 9

I love the Jews! I love all people - sweetie some people are just ignorant - or just plain DUMB. Those people with the 2 brain cells in their head most likely dislike everyone else but Christians. That area is called Middle America.

Answer 10

I know that the real answer lies in the Bible. But my personal conviction is that it has to be centered around jealousy. Imagine...the Jews are GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE! It's like, they are God's favorite and the rest of us are "just His children". Now, I don't feel that way, but when I was younger (in grade school), I kind of felt slighted. But I have to hatred nor dislike of Jews as a whole. That is racist and discriminatory. And that is NOT of God!

Answer 11

People please!!
There's Jews (people who follow Judaism) and there's Israelis (people from Israel). Many hate the latter because of their actions.
People who are now living in Israel are different from the ones who used to live there when Jesus was there. The ones living in Israel now are simply Jews who were "collected" from different places in the world and been put in a single country.
There's a lot of confusion about this, I hope people would have a clearer view and not stereotype a lot!
don't forget, Jesus was once a Jew! yes Semitic!