why do people hate jews so much is there a secret reason why?

Answer 1

Historically, the early Christians thought of themselves as Jews who also followed the teachings of Jesus. Later people became Christians who did not want to also be Jews and in time the leadership of the early church decreed that new converts did not have to follow Jewish custom. This caused controversy and the church began to distance itself from Judaism. In time Christians began to resent Jews who wouldn't accept that Jesus was the Messiah and the way to salvation. They began to use Jews as scapegoats for all that was wrong. The especially blamed the Jews for the crucifixion and used this as a pretext for all sorts of persecutions. As the church became more Roman in character this scapegoating was particularly important because after all crucifixion was a Roman form of execution. After Constantine proclaimed that Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empire, the emperors strove to suppress all other religions. They were fairly successful in eliminating the worship of the old Roman gods as well as various other religions popular at the time but the Jews persisted. By this time most of them had been driven from their home land for even before the empire became Christian the Jews had resisted Roman rule in part because like the Christians they wouldn't worship the Roman gods.

By the time the Roman empire collapsed and the middle ages began, persecuting Jews was a cultural habit. It is always convenient for the people in power to have one group to pick on and blame for their own failings. In largely Christian Europe the non-conforming Jews filled that bill. Whenever there was a disaster or a plague, the authorities could blames the Jews. Generations of people grew up believing that Jews were to be hated just because their parents did. Much later Hitler came to power by playing up this ingrained hatred and making the people believe that everything wrong with Germany was the fault of the Jews. Even today various groups stir up hate for Jews (and other minorities) to advance their own political agendas. Since they usually have nothing positive to offer they instead try to gain adherents by giving them someone to hate and fear and thus to organize against.

Answer 2

Well i aint a Jew, nor to i hate or love them, i got by individuals, most people precive Jews as fraudsers, cunning people who wanna take over the world, people who masscare other people, beleving something that is old, acient, putting Christ to death, all these things make people hate them but they dont realise the facts and truths, Judaism is simmilar tyo Christianity and Islam, but people dnt seem to know enogugh about it apart from what they see in Media, whay their freinds, next door people tell them, all this stereo typing and generalising, but some Jews do tend to be more cunning and arrogant then other people, but i never come across a Jew in real life personally to critize him or her.

Answer 3

Israel is the only country in the world which is totally surrounded by enemies, according to a question asked on the TV program Jeapordy. Jewish people sue more than any other nationality on earth. Although it was totally wrong, Hitler slaughtered the Jewish people because of their reputation of exploiting other nationalities, and trying to control governments "like they presently do in the USA and Canada". During my 58 years on this earth I have attempted to work for Jewish employers, but on each occassion I encountered exploitation and very low wages.
I don't hate Jewish people, I actually feel sorry for them. I'd hate to be part of a race that is known to be the most hated in the world.

Answer 4

It wasn't merely Hitler, anti-Semitism replaced into familiar and severely well-known, no longer in elementary terms in Europe yet in different western international places and the middle East, and were for close on 1000 years. there are various motives, however the biggest ones in Europe at that factor are: - the popularly held theory via Catholics (remember Hitler replaced into Catholic) that "the Jews murdered Jesus"; - the reality that the lots despised moneylender commerce had for hundreds of years been ruled via Jews; - a rfile called "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", a hoax which "revealed" a Jewish conspiracy to take over the international. Hitler's motives have been an identical. Many attempt to faux it replaced into very own, or that Hitler replaced into insane. He could have been, yet that's no longer the reason, and to objective to make it "it replaced into merely this one guy, and he replaced into loopy and evil", etc is to forget the essential lesson from the Holocaust, it extremely is that hatred and intolerance, left unchecked, ends up in mass graves.

Answer 5

Because they were the chosen people of God since Isaac (Israel) all prophets were from the sons of Israel but Mohamed who is grandfather is Ismail the half brother of Israel. The way Jews act as if they are God's people and the rest are scum is maybe why some people hate Jews.

Answer 6

Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group, which can range in expression from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution. While the term's etymology may imply that antisemitism is directed against all people of a Semite descent, it is in practice used exclusively to refer to hostility towards Jews. The highly explicit ideology of Adolf Hitler's Nazism was the most extreme example of this phenomenon, leading to the genocide of European Jewry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

New antisemitism is the concept of an international resurgence of attacks on Jewish symbols, as well as the acceptance of Judeophobic beliefs and their expression in public discourse, coming simultaneously from three political directions: the left, Islamism, and the far-right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_antisemitism

Answer 7

Did you know that the KKK hates not only Blacks and Jews, but Catholics as well? A lot of groups bring it on themselves by being exclusionary, helping members of the same group to the exclusion of others, and erecting barriers to entry. Jews do all these things and make a tremendous effort to make their children successful. Most Jews have small families so they can help ensure the success of their kids and have them marry others of the same ethnic group. I think this contributes significantly to making them the target of disdain.

Answer 8

Dear Oracle,

No big secret, just an accumulation of unfortunate factors. Hatred of the Jews goes back to the early times of Christianity as a mainstream religion. Jews were often persecuted in most Christian countries. The theoretical, doctrinal reason was that it was Jews who turned Jesus over to the Romans and had him killed. (remember that Jesus was considered by them as a sort of "renegade" Jew) The practical reason, as always, is that the Jews made a handy scapegoat.

Later on, tragically, discrimination itself became a self-fulfilling tendency. Because of widespread distrust of Judaism in Christian countries, Jews were gradually barred from engaging in most occupations except those connected to the handling of money, because anything related to money was considered base and despicable by Christian doctrine. This is why so many Jews by tradition became money-lenders, bankers or jewellers - they had no other choice. Being wealthy, they naturally became the object of even more bitter jealousy and opprobrium.

Eventually this also made them the target of many a violent fundraising venture by European monarchs. Philippe IV of France, for instance, replenished the depleted royal coffers by massacring Jews and taking their money (nothing personal, though - he slaughtered the wealthy Knights Templar back from the crusades just as enthusiastically, after putting them through kangaroo courts on made-up charges like heresy and sodomy). Jews were the victims of many other pogroms throughout the centuries, most notably in the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe.

Interestingly, many Jews fled to Muslim caliphates to escape the persecution because Muslim rulers offered them unconditional protection, in abidance of Koranic teachings which stipulated that Muslims had a duty of kindness towards the "people of the Book" (i.e. Jews and Christians). In these days Muslim civilisation was at its peak and it was Christians in Europe who were considered the backward religious fanatics, while Muslims appointed themselves the guardians of ecumenical tolerance. This is the reason why there are still large Jewish communities in North Africa, Turkey and Lebanon, for instance.

Throughout these centuries of persecution, the natural reflex for the Jews was to stick together and form closed, tight-knit communities. The ambiguity of the Jewish faith reinforced this insular tendency, since Judaism is almost as much a race as it is a religion. This is evidenced by the fact that the religion is inherited through the maternal bloodline and that Jews hardly ever attempt to convert anyone, unlike practitioners of other Abrahamic religions - you are either "God's chosen people" by birth or you are not.

It then became easy for ranting fanatics to stupidly extrapolate these traits to paranoid extents - hence the whole "Jewish conspiracy to take over the world", etc. This is where much of the 19th and 20th century anti-Semitism came from. Nowadays anti-Semitism is much less rife than it used to be in the Western world, though it is not completely extinct. Some far right-wing pundits across the Western world still enjoy ranting against the Jews, for instance.

In the Middle East, sadly, it's a different story. Although, as we have seen, Muslims have historically been much kinder to the Jews than Christians, the creation of a Jewish state right in the middle of a Muslim heartland (right at the time of decolonisation) has generated massive polarisation in the region, and most Muslim countries do not even recognise Israel. Many newscasters in these places refer to it as the "Tel Aviv regime". Israel's often brutal retaliations against its Palestinian population in the past decades have not improved matters.

Anti-Semitism is also encouraged by a much more insidious and ironic process - the unfortunate tendency by a vocal minority of Jews to dismiss any criticism of Israel or its actions as "anti-Semitism". This is especially true in Germany and the US, for instance, where for different reasons support for Israel has become a sacred cause which tolerates no dissidence. As usual, this sort of debate-stonewalling and name-calling gives rise to polarisation and hostility - critics of Israeli policy, with reason, become offended at being systematically labelled anti-Semites, and in turn some of them (thankfully not many) become tempted to extend their distrust to all Jews.

Hope this helped,

Answer 9

Its just those people with stupidity and ignorance.Unfortunately we have alot of people like that.