Why do you think that the Jews have been disliked throughout history, what do you think the reason is?

Answer 1

Have you met some of their offspring the Christians and Muslims? It's not fair that they get them blame for them being idiots but they are their parents.

Answer 2

My honest opinion is that a big part of why Jewish people have been viewed negatively over the years is partly the view of #1 and #5, but also because of #2. However, I think the main reason is because of how isolationist and uncompromising the Jewish culture is. It is very much an "us versus them" culture, and completely unbending in that stance. It's not many cultures that have a specific word that means someone who is not them (gentile). Orthodox Jews take this to an extreme, to a very stand-offish place that really can't do anything but rub people the wrong way. I think they've given all Jewish people a bad wrap for it, and are the source of the animosity directed towards Jews in general.

Answer 3

I think it's because of Usery.

Economic progress during the Middle Ages necessitated financial loans. As the Jews were ostracized from most professions by local rulers, the church and the guilds, they were pushed into marginal occupations considered socially inferior, such as tax and rent collecting and moneylending. This was said to show Jews were insolent, greedy usurers. Natural tensions between creditors and debtors were added to social, political, religious, and economic strains.
... financial oppression of Jews tended to occur in areas where they were most disliked, and if Jews reacted by concentrating on moneylending to gentiles, the unpopularity - and so, of course, the pressure - would increase. Thus the Jews became an element in a vicious circle. The Christians, on the basis of the Biblical rulings, condemned interest-taking absolutely, and from 1179 those who practised it were excommunicated. But the Christians also imposed the harshest financial burdens on the Jews. The Jews reacted by engaging in the one business where Christian laws actually discriminated in their favour, and so became identified with the hated trade of moneylending.

Answer 4

jealousy. Because in many ways the Jews have been right. For example, they were right that Jesus did not fulfill the messianic prophecies, and so many Christians hated them because their very existence stood as an obstacle to the credibility of their doctrine. The same with Islam. The Jews knew that Muhammad was not verifying the truth of the Jewish scriptures, as he said he was, and therefore the Muslims hated them, again because they were right in relation to Islam.

Now, please don't think I'm putting down Christianity and Islam. I think they are both fine religions. But literally, technically, the Jews have it right about them, that they are not LITERALLY the fulfillment of Judaism, based on what the Hebrew Bible says. They have much truth, but that truth is more allegorical as I see it.

So it boils down to the presence of the Jews creating a credibility problem for these other religions.

Notice that religions like Hinduism and Buddhism have not been anti-Semitic at all, because there was no conflict between them and the Jews.

Answer 5

I never thought Jews were disliked. It is another group that I have noticed is not liked too much. Anyway, God gave Israel to the Jews and wants them to have it back. He called it "The Promised Land". There is a religion that has taken over Israel at this time. I am all for the Jews getting back their land, but the religion that has taken it over doesn't seem to want to. I cannot type the religion on here as I don't want to get reported for slander or something.

Answer 6

I personally am not a Jew, but I never get it why people hate jews. I don't see any big event that put the jews as the bad people. I know that they are creedy, but does that give us the reason why we should hate them. I think jew haters are jelous and scared that the whole money will be runned by jews in the future.

Answer 7

I like Jews, I have no reason not to. I respect their beliefs even if they are different than mine. If fact one in particular I'm very fond of. I had just started working & since I was the low man on the totem pole, I was scheduled to work Christmas. A Jewish person & a Jehovahs Witness offered to work for me, which I thought was a really nice thing to do.

Answer 8

First you have to assume that everyone answering this question agrees with your premise that Jews have been disliked throughout history.

I don't agree.

I love the Jewish people.

Answer 9

The Christian Church wrongly accused the Jewish people of crucifying Jesus.

After 2000 years of indoctrination, is there any doubt that Christians would despise the Jews?

Answer 10

The majority herd will always find some group to pick on to inflate their collective ego. Jews, blacks, homosexuals, Arabs... it doesn't matter.