Why do so many people throughout history hate the Jews?

Question

First the Pograms, then the Holocaust. What is the origin of this hate?

Answer 1

One answer might be this: the Jews were the first people to extoll an invisible god, who saw all, and bad people don't like the idea of being seen being bad.

Answer 2

The Jews are one of a very small number, if not the only, ethnic group to maintain their identity outside of their geographic home. Usually after three or four generations immigrants will merge with the existing social group. The Jews just don't do this. Being different has always been bad in world history.

One of the big problems for Jews in Europe was actually created by the Europeans. Jews were the only ethnic group in Europe that could loan money for profit. Christian ideology of the day said that charging interest was sinful. So, European Jews attained the power of wealth. It was also easy to steal wealth by an unscrupulous ruler.

But, the short answer remains, Jews are universally hated because they refuse to blend into the existing culture.

Answer 3

Hating others is something we can find all over the world. Everybody hates everyone, isn't it pity?
Jews are not the only who feel the others hate them. From the other side Jews hate a lot of people too. They killed a lot of innocent women and children in Libanon the previous days.
My opinion is that all the people can be bad and good as well.
And don't forget : Jews are those who handle all the financial issues on the planet for years and years , that could be an answer.

Answer 4

through history the Jews has been business people, thy arrive to a place work hard, and make money and then.... they go into the lending business, they lend money high interests and began to take control this way, at some point their control is such that the only way to get free is getting rid of them, wars starts and they are push out of the area and move to another area and the cycle is repeated, Hitler had the Idea that Jews had the economy of Germany on their hands and the Holocaust started, they are deep in the banking business, I think that they were the ones that created the base for our actual banking System, money creates hate against the one who has it

Answer 5

I had a whole course dedicated to the Holocaust back in college so I can help you with this question.

The origin of this hate goes back to the Middle Ages where Jews were blamed for the death of Jesus (ironically, Jesus IS Jewish). During and after the Black Death, Jews were blamed for poisoning the wells (no germ theory ever existed back then). Of course, you have the Crusades and various Inquistions (they wanted Christian converts for power, not out of love for their fellow men).

In the 19th and 20th centuries, anti-Semitism evolved from being of a religious nature to that of a racial nature. Because of Charles Darwin's book "The Origin of Species," people believed that Jews were less evolved than whites, which added fuel to the Nazi fire.

As a Christian, my dad taught me to respect my Jewish counterparts because they are related to Christians through the Old Testament.

I hope my answer helps you.

Answer 6

My straightforward opinion is that a large element of why Jewish human beings were seen negatively over the years is partly the view of #a million and #5, yet also because of #2. even with the undeniable fact that, i imagine the major reason is as a results of the way isolationist and uncompromising the Jewish way of existence is. that is really a lot an "us as against them" way of existence, and thoroughly unbending in that stance. it really is no longer many cultures which have a particular be conscious which skill someone who isn't them (gentile). Orthodox Jews take this to an severe, to an exceedingly stand-offish position that fairly won't be able to do something yet rub human beings the incorrect way. i imagine they have given all Jewish human beings a nasty wrap for it, and are the source of the animosity directed in direction of Jews commonly.

Answer 7

Good question I chalk it up to negative peer pressure. Killed them off and they be frighten enough to join the Christian Church. Since it was the Catholic Church that really spreaded the hate of the Jewish people by stating that Jesus was killed by the Jewish People than they to must dye or convert to the Catholic Church so that their souls would be saved. Some people think like they do today that negative peer person is the way to influence people and gain converts. Will you might gain them but those that go believe in your tactics of winning friends over might end up hating you. Which has happen to many a Jewish Person because of the mass killings of the Jewish People over the years a lot of them don't like Christians. It was also thought that Jewish people were so evil that they would kill Christian Children to use their blood to make matzoh balls and flat bread, of course these stories were started by the Christian Church in the middle ages to discourage Christians to have any thing to do with Christ killers as the Jewish People were known then. Also, Jewish People were thought to be rich and bankers and poor Christians hated them for the fact that many of them were richer than they were. Even today it's been said poor Catholic girls of any poor Catholic country anywhere in this world has but one dream to marry a rich Jewish Man who will take care of her. The reason why Jewish people are thought to be rich is because a lot of them in Eastern European Countries weren't allowed to own land and become farmers so many went into banking but to tell you the truth there are very few rich Jewish people in this world. So now you have a couple of reason why Christians hate the Jewish people. You can read all of this if you download this web site http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/ which happens to be a book you can download on line called The Holocaust Chronicles read chapter one of the book Prologue: The Roots of the Holocaust to learn more to the answer to your question.

Answer 8

Most ancient civilizations believed in a whole pantheon of gods: gods for winter, gods for summer, gods for luck, gods for death, etc. But the Jews believed one god covered all that. Since so many other people thought differently, they ganged up on them. Also, people just randomly persecuted Jews throughout history because they disagreed with the Jews' religion; Emperor Hadrian, Emperor Diocletian, and Hitler, to name a few. Some people just could not stand the fact that some people believed in ONE GOD; that, and the fact that Jews have been known to stick to their religion even if they are threatened with death, and some people find that courage annoying.

Answer 9

The same reason people have hated others throughout time--because they are different. The Jews probably seemed more so because they remained as one community, apart from others.

Answer 10

If you don't have a visible minority to discriminate against, society still has to have a scapegoat. The war against the jews started with the mistaken idea that the jews killed Jesus. Jesus WAS a jew. Also, the jews have religious laws that protected them from the filth that caused the Black Plague, etc. It was easy to accuse them of being in cahoots with the devil when the filthy christians were dying in their own excrement in the Dark Ages. I don't know why we always have to be hatin'. Sometimes, I think that that's the way "They" want it.