Are jews paranoid or are they right when they see antisemitism everywhere?

Question

Are we blind, or are they hallucinating?
I remember having been accused of being like 'them' by a jewish friend, whatever that meant... only because I doubted that judaism can be a people and a religion at the same time

Answer 1

Both.

Jews have reason to be wary of anti-semitism because of the lessons of history, but it is also an easy out of any argument.

As your friend, your friend should know that you are not anti-semitic and your point is valid. What Ethiopian, Moroccan, Yemenite, Japanese, Chinese and any other kind of Jew share is their religion, not their ethnicity. In fact, Jews are very ethnically diverse. There are also religious differences on the level of rites, but not basic beliefs.

Answer 2

Saying that Judaism cannot be a religion and a people at the same time is not an expression of anti-Semitism, just a a statement based on misinformation.

Jews notice anti-Semitism more than non-Jews because it effects them more. When I was about four years old somebody grafittied a swastika on the door of our house (around 1990, in Los Angeles). When i was in high school, some guys I knew were beaten up by skinheads on their way home from synagogue. These are just things from my own personal life. The Jewish people have survived countless persecutions throughout history. Sadly, being paranoid is not a choice-- it is a requirement if we plan on surviving.

Answer 3

It's far away from that paranoia thing, you see you aren't a jewish and you can't clearly realyse what is happening to them !
Here is a true statistic
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2004/graph-1.jpg (awful)
You see the antisemitism is developed in many contrys most of them in Russia (ex U.S.S.R territories) , Germany , Poland, Hungary, Italy, England, America, Latin America, Turkey, Australia, and many islamic contrys.You Wonder why is that?
let's see now

RUSSIA AND ex.U.S.S.R is cocidered as the most anisemitic place, region, that is because Russians think that they gave that many lifes in World War 2 just to save the Jewish people, and the whole war is their (Jewish) fault.

GERMANY - It's obvious , i mean after the war many germans specialy DDR were treated as a pigs.Even a little kids who just started to go in school were insulted and treated as guilty for the war (even they were not born)...It's very obvious thing antisemitism in Germany.

POLAND - Same situation as germany (u see in poland there are the most horrible concentration camps in the world)

HUNGARY- This is very different thing, in Hungary specialy Budapest today are living many Jews, who normaly had their tradition religion and way of living.That is not accepted by most of the non-Jewish people there.

ITALY The world most famous chatolic place, Vatikan?The reason is obvious.Not accepting other religion.

England & U.S.A- They simply had an aversion and fear from the Jewish people because they treat them as a religious fanatics and hete their traditions. The biggest thing is the st upid thought that many ppl had "THE JEWS KILLED JESUS" .I don't respect his kind of treating the things cause that was 2006 years ago when the world was totaly different!

LAtin America and Australia- - - MAny Jews after the war there

Turkey & Cypress- Also many jews and different religion who is against the Islam and Allah.....

And what did the antisemitist do?Well starting with non accepting them in shool working place .Makeing laugh of them and their tradition and their star of David, mennorah (the eternal light).Not accepting the wish of the Jewish people to came back in their promissed land (Israel) , ending with fights , murrders (which is very often too) and insulting their synagogyes by drawing a swastika or some threats in the wall of their holly place.....
Is it enough? i think it is...
The United Nations are trying to solve this problem which is going to be bigger in the future specialy with the problems occuring now-days.
And you know this is not a problem after the World War 2 it is much before that...When many people thought that the jews are going to take the control over the world.For example MArtin Luther (the Fater of the Protestantism) was a big antisemitist!
And yes many peple today look at the jews like guilty of the free massonery (The Grand Lodge) and like people who r controling the world the oil the buissnes the most biggest casinos hotels and organisations all around the world
If you are interested in more :
www.aish.com
www.torah.org
www.toojewish.com
www.jewfaq.org
www.adl.org
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/antisem.html

PEACE!!!

Answer 4

No Jews are not paranoid. You my friend are not Jewish so you are not affected by the anti-semitism therefore you do not actually notice it. The reason for this anti semitism is that the Jews are Gods holy people and Jesus is going to return to their homeland. The demons do not want Jesus to return so they encourage people through various means to hate Jews in the hope that all Jewishness will cease. when there is not one more Jew left on this Earth there will be no Jewish homeland so Jesus will have no where to return to.

Answer 5

When the Roman historian Tacitus pointed out 19 centuries ago that the Jews are unique among the races of man in their intense hatred and contempt for all races but their own, he was only repeating what many other scholars had discovered before him. For the next 1,900 years other investigators came to similar conclusions, either from a study of the Jews' religious writings or from a study of the Jews' behavior toward non-Jews.

Notable among these was the Great Reformer, Martin Luther, who in 1543 wrote in Von den JØden und Ihren LØgen :

Does not their Talmud say, and do not their rabbis write, that it is no sin to kill if a Jew kills a heathen, but it is a sin if he kills a brother in Israel? It is no sin if he does not keep his oath to a heathen. Therefore, to steal and rob, as they do with their usury, from a heathen is a divine service. For they hold that they cannot be too hard on us nor sin against us, because they are of the noble blood and circumcised saints; we, however, are cursed goyim. And they are the masters of the world, and we are their servants, yea, their cattle....

Should someone think that I am saying too much, I am not saying too much, but much too little. For I see in their writings how they curse us goyim and wish us all evil in their schools and their prayers.

The Jews responded to Luther like they responded to all the others. They put him down as just another "hater," blinded by religious bigotry. And today that's still the Jews' standard answer to everyone who says or writes anything about them except the most fawning praise.

Answer 6

God told his people that nations would wage war against them so they are used to it and can handle anything that man can throw at them. The arch angel Michael watches over Israel so I would not worry about there out come. The bible says that we should pray for Israel, that is a mandate from God himself. The Bible also calls Israel the apple of his eye. So if anyone believes in God (or even if they don't) they should be very careful what they say or do against them.

Answer 7

Why does being anti-jewish have a whole separate word to itself? Or is there a word for being anti-christian I don't know? Not much of an answer I know, but I've always wondered.

Answer 8

i would not call it antisemitism yet anti-christianism. Halachically you're jewish in case you have been born to a mom it extremely is halachically jewish or you switched over trough an orthodox Beth Din. so a ways so solid. the concern is consequently that those anybody is Apostates and no longer are jewish till they return to judaism. in the event that they have been given baptised (and that i think of messianics get baptised, precise?) they switched over to a diverse faith and are not from now on area of our people. i think of the Israeli immigration regulation fits this gorgeous plenty as you may not make Alijah in case you're messianic and declare it on the type - as IL is open for each Jew and messianics no longer considered jewish consequently it extremely is tremendously sparkling that those anybody isn't Jews. How strict Halacha is exhibits even the occasion of the historian Saul Friedländer - he become born to a jewish mom and a jewish father; during WW2 he become hidden via catholic munks and baptised/raised catholic; his dad and mom have been murdered and after the war he had to submit to an orthodox Giur to return to Judaism, as because of the fact of his Baptism, he no longer become. i do no longer think of he might have gone via this technique if it would not have been needed. So messianics are Christians and if somebody detestes them it can not be antisemitism as long as you do no longer evaluate jewish as an ethnic element - and that i'm hoping you do no longer; in reality i can not think of you will possibly see it like this. To the question why they're detested my lots of people - properly if those people come alongside for Shabbos with a huge flow around the neck or initiate telling people who they may be "greater helpful off" in the event that they might flow to their "Shabbos" ceremony, i do no longer think of this is remarkable others do in comparison to them.

Answer 9

A bit of each. We're kneejerk to call being cut off in traffic Anti-Semitic, but you've shown that you don't notice until it's too late.

Answer 10

I'm still waiting for the day someone takes offense at being called an Athiest.