Why honestly without being stupid, why do people people of the Jewish race?

Question

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I am trying to find out why people hate Jewish people. I made a mistake in the question.

Answer 1

Hey, great question. I have a thought about this, but first, minor note -- I think that most social scientists would say that "Jewish" is not a race. Judaism is a religion, so being Jewish in some contexts means that you practice that religion -- but social scientists would also more broadly say that Jews are an ethnic group, which means that people are bound together by similar cultural beliefs and practices. There are a lot of secular (non-religious) Jews who follow Jewish traditions and rituals but who never go to synagogue and may even claim to not believe in a higher being.

As for anti-semitism, here's my historical take: it's a combination of two things--Jewish populations in whatever country they're in tend to be exclusive or insular (socialize or stick together), and they also tend to be very economically and professionally successful. This leads them to become easy targets (since they're identifiable and stick together) and for other groups in the population to be jealous of their success and feel that the other groups' well-being is threatened by them. Because of this, Jewish populations historically have tended to be ostracized, and as we know, bad things happen after that... (BTW, it seems fair to ask whether Jewish populations are insular and then are targeted because of their exclusivity, or whether they are insular *because* they are the target of others -- I don't know the answer to this but it probably goes both ways.)

Answer 2

Not to long ago I read the book The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal. And as tragic as Jewish History is, I wonder how much hatred the Jewish people harber hidden in their hearts for everything and everyone that is not Jewish.
The book blew me away with the hatred that Jews feel toward Germans.
A quote from Mark Goulden out of this book:
Well, that was the burden of guilt which the Germans bore when the war ended, and for this culpability they have made no act of atonement as a nation. One often asked in the early days whether a people who had done these things, either by active participation or silent acquiescence could ever live down such a legacy of inhumanity. Dare they ever lift up their heads again in civilized society? Would the brand of Cain stay forever on the German brow just as the tattooed Star of David would remain indelible on the arms of many a victim who escaped.?
No civilization on earth harpers these thoughts toward another nation that have done a great injustice. Yet all nations remember the injustices. War is cruel, and if a race claims to be chosen above all other races, you are just heading for trouble. It is a religious fallacy that was created by the Jewish People, and those who wrote the Torah. Maybe those words applied 4000 years ago to a people to lift them up. But to still hold to this belief?. We no longer stone our children to death either, and that is in the Torah too. There is enough blame to go around, but please, you pick and choose, and create havoc with this belief-system, as has Christianity and the Muslim Religions. (There is plenty of genocide in the Torah too, all in the name of God)
Anti-semitic hate comments on this site, give me a break. I've received verbal hate comments by Jews toward me in your own synogoge. And I had given them no cause, and I wasn't around the Nazi - Era either. I doubt that Jews would have sticked their neck out for the Germans if it was the other way around. Your religous fore-bareres (Abraham, Moses, Jacob etc.) were not very honest, were they? Perhaps any anti-german remarks in the future I will report as a threat , or slander for sure.

Answer 3

I don't hate the Jewish people.

My oldest son's Godparents are Jewish... Figure that one out!

I love the Jewish people, they have a grace and a poise and a delightfull humor that carried them through some of the most horrible times in history... including what is being done to them right now.

Everything else is an ignorant childish stereotype... those kinds of things are passed down from ignorant stupid fathers and mothers... to ignorant stupid children who never stop and question what they believe...

The Jewish people don't complain as much as the other oppressed people. So they don't reach out and grab compassion by its throat and demand it so it continues...

My Lord and My God is a Jew... How could I hate his people?

Answer 4

Well first it's Jewish religion, not Jewish race, and second I really don't know, I was raised shelter from prejudice for the most part, plus I don't really know alot about the religion since religion has never been a big part of my life.

I'm guessing some of the hatred comes from thier beliefs though which I know differ from christian beliefs but I don't really know what the differences are. Another thing I hear is that they are cheap, but I don't why that would spawn contempt. Nor do I like that generalization as I'm sure not all of them are.

Answer 5

Fear, anger, competition, religion, superstition....the opposites, security, peace with knowledge, co-operation, science, scientific spirituality (the science for logic)

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hl/hlconten.htm

Preface to the First Edition
§ 1

The complete transformation which philosophical thought in Germany has undergone in the last twenty-five years and the higher standpoint reached by spirit in its awareness of itself, have had but little influence as yet on the structure of logic.

§ 2

That which, prior to this period, was called metaphysics has been, so to speak, extirpated root and branch and has vanished from the ranks of the sciences. The ontology, rational psychology, cosmology, yes even natural theology, of former times-where is now to be heard any mention of them, or who would venture to mention them? Inquiries, for instance, into the immateriality of the soul, into efficient and final causes, where should these still arouse any interest? Even the former proofs of the existence of God are cited only for their historical interest or for purposes of edification and uplifting the emotions. The fact is that there no longer exists any interest either in the form or the content of metaphysics or in both together. If it is remarkable when a nation has become indifferent to its constitutional theory, to its national sentiments, its ethical customs and virtues, it is certainly no less remarkable when a nation loses its metaphysics, when the spirit which contemplates its own pure essence is no longer a present reality in the life of the nation.

Berlin, November 7, 1831

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hl/hlprefac.htm#HL1_25

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/index.htm

Works of Karl Marx 1844

On The Jewish Question

Answer 6

If I hated Jews I would say so regardless of your threat. I am not afraid to say what I think. But,to answer your question I like the Jewish people. All I have ever Known are smart,wise,and usually well off. Probably because they are smart people.

Answer 7

There's a lot of arguement that the Jews killed Jesus, at least that's what I hear as the reason. Many of them must be forgetting that Jesus was also a Jew. I personally don't have any hate toward a particular religious group or culture and find it hard to understand why a lot of other people have these hang-ups. It's pretty sad.

Answer 8

Germany is physically powerful with or devoid of Hitler. the only stable element Hitler have finished is to get rid of the communists and united the Germans. Communism isn't suitable for Germany (former East germany is stable occasion) Portugal, eire, Spain, and Greece have their potential yet they are poorly cope with international locations. Germany did no longer earnings from the slaughter of the "no longer worth". in certainty, Germans are seen as psychopath for some years. It takes years of apologies to save its reputations. Germany additionally lost many remarkable scientists like Einstein. Germany may be a greater suitable u . s . devoid of Hitler. in certainty, if no longer for Hitler. the main technological strengthen international locations interior the international may be Germany and Japan.

Answer 9

I am a German Catholic. All my life I never knew why people went to wars over religion. We all coinhabit in the midwest very well. I don't know the answer. I never hated another religion until 9-11-01. Now I hate with all my soul all moslems and will confront all I see.

Answer 10

Not all people. I am from Turkey and when I see a Jew, I feel like I see someone from my neighborhood. I feel the same way about Greek people too.