Why do so many people dislike the Jews?

Question

The Nazis hated the Jews, but they weren't the first by a long way. Anti-semitism has been round for hundred of years and has never gone away. You can find dozens of jew-hate websites on the internet.

Perhaps originally Jews were hated by Christians as they were blamed for having killed JC, but that's not the reason nowadays.

So, SENSIBLE explanations please.........

Answer 1

I used to work in retail and these people are the rudest ignorant people i have ever had to deal with.

Answer 2

If you the believe the Bible the Jews are Gods chosen people and a lot of small minded people have a problem with that.

then there are the people that think that the Jews killed Jesus,the Jews did not kill Jesus if the Jews had killed Jesus, Jesus would have been stoned not crucified.there was a lot of politics and greed that led to the Crucifixion of Jesus , but it was the Romans that nailed Jesus to the tree.

the Muslims / Arabs hate Jews because of the real estate that the Jews call home , and because of jealousy. The Muslims are taught that if you don't believe that Mahmoud is god you have to die and the Jews believe in the true One and only God , and not that Mahmud is God , so the Jews must die.

a little correction friend Anti-Semitism has been around for ' thousands ' of years.By the grace of God the Jews take names and kick A S S if they didn't they would be an extinct race of people.

Answer 3

I have never being able to understand why some societies and people are so against the Jews, especially today from many of the surrounding Arab states. Just look at the recent remarks by the President of Iran who said "Israel should be wiped off the map." It could be that the Jews are a non-Arab society living within the proximity of a majority Arab middle-East, and hence are just an easy target. What I don't understand even more is the criticism of Israel defending itself using its military, after hundreds of its people are killed by suicide bombers. The simple solution is that if Lebanon and Palestine stop the kidnappings and sucide bombers, then Israel would stop its military action.

Why can't everyone just live in peace within their own homes?

Answer 4

Well, its a pretty clear cut issue for modern Jew haters, they are extremely narrow minded and sad sad individuals who can't see the fact that today we are all one big race of people. Historically though, they were an easy target because everywhere they went they kept to themselves. If you ever make it to Berlin, and you should because its an amazing city, go check out the Jewish museum. It has a great exibit on the history of Jews and how they were forbidden from doing many things but nonetheless became very affluent wherever they went through generation to generation teaching of knowledge and skills. It was primarily this that made them so much more successful than most peasant europeans, and despised at the same time.
As I said before though, today's Jew haters are simply ignorant and narrow minded.

I'm not Jewish by the way.

Answer 5

I think it's pretty well explained in the Book of Esther, chapter 3. Haman, the king's main advisor, hates the Jews because he is jealous of one particular jew who won't bow down to him.

But when he explains to King Ahasuerus why the Jews should no longer be tolerated he puts it like this: "And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them."

So the public reason given was that Jews might have no loyalty to the state in which they lived, because they were a people dispersed and that they separated themselves from other inhabitants of the kingdom (according to the Bible, this comprised at that time some 127 separate provinces and extended from Africa to India) by not intermarrying with other subjects and by not eating the same food.

To religious Christians it has always been difficult to understand why the Jews did not accept Jesus as the Christ, after all he was born into their nation. So many Christians have resolved this matter in their own minds by deciding that the Jews must be a wilfully perverse nation who deserve punishment and ignominy.

Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire explained ancient anti-semitism well:"A single people refused to join in the common intercourse of mankind. The Jews, who, under the Assyrian and Persian monarchies, had languished for many ages the most despised portion of their slaves, emerged from obscurity under the successors of Alexander; and as they multiplied to a surprising degree in the East, and afterwards in the West, they soon excited the curiosity and wonder of other nations. The sullen obstinacy with which they maintained their peculiar rites and unsocial manners, seemed to mark them out as a distinct species of men, who boldly professed, or who faintly disguised, their implacable habits to the rest of human kind. Neither the violence of Antiochus, nor the arts of Herod, nor the example of the circumjacent nations, could ever persuade the Jews to associate with the institutions of Moses the elegant mythology of the Greeks."

None of this justifies anti semitism which, like all racism, is evil and abhorent.

Answer 6

I think governments such as the French and the Nazis deliberately targeted the Jews as scapegoats when times were bad to direct the people's anger towards someone other than themselves. They spread a lot of lies about the Jews such as that they ate babies at Passover and many people believed these rumours without any evidence.

Unfortunately it is easy to incite hatred and very hard to get people to look at the facts. The hate is passed down from one generation to the next and is still with us today.

Answer 7

The Jews have been hated for a long while, you are right in saying that, but why isnt always so clear and the reasons tend to change throughout the ages. Hitler saw them as the problem to the German economy. Arabs and most muslims in general hate them and demonise them. reasons for this include the setting up of israeli state in palestine and its wars with Israel. But also maybe it views Jews as a direct threat to Islam. Nowadays, whenever someone thinks of the word "Jew" he thinks of someone that is tight fisted amongst other stereotypes. but throughtout time they have always been used, perhaps as a scapegoat to other major problems. In Britain, during the years of Jack the Ripper, the first suspisions fell upon the new jewish communities arriving in east London.

The fact that Christians always viewed Jews as the main culprits behind the death of Jesus Christ has probably stained them ever since. Infact the name Judas, who betrayed Jesus, is a Greek name for Jew. so the connection between Jews and betrayal was firmly established from that

Answer 8

Its this simple. The world is full of ignorant and intollerant people. Sheep as I call them. I am willing to bet that a Jew hater has never even known a jew. Just as a KKK member has never known a black or jew and so on. You get the idea.

There are millions of people in the world unable and unwilling to think on their own and make their own decisions. Fear and ignorance. Uneducated and uninformed. Stupidity, whatever you want to call it.

Answer 9

Jews often work hard and because of this gain enough wealth to be envied. People hate them because they don't think Jews should have more wealth than them. It is a shame.

Answer 10

I'm not really concerned with the haters club ; and much of the hate being pushed is coming from the "tolerant" Left .