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Question

My history teacher is currently teaching the class about conflicts in the Middle East. And there's one question I still don't understand is that during the Second World War, or even before the Great War, we learnt how the Jews were been treated and there had been a long tradition of hatred of Jews in Europe. So my question is that if people hated the Jews so much in the past, why are they helping them nowadays (By they I mean the United States, British, ......) ?

Answer 1

The Jews generally are not hated in the United States or Britain. Some noted political figures in Britain have been Jewish and both countries have been hospitable to businesses and banks controlled by Jewish families or interests.

However in Eastern Europe Jews have been murdered, relocated, subjected to pogroms and persecution. Germany, a relatively enlightened and modern country, presided over the largest mass murder in history in the holocaust.

Britain and the United States have supported the concept of a Jewish state in the Middle East. Jewish settlement in that area has actually gone on for many years, even a century or more.

Jews are welcome to live in Britain and the U.S. and have enjoyed freedom and privileges in these countries. So this really isn't that much of a change.