Is Jew Hate growing or shrinking today?

Question

AntiSemitism as Jew-Hate has been one of the ugly undercurrents( and even legal ,encouraged and overt in many times and places) in many cultures. What do you think? Where you are, is antisemitism getting worse? How can we personally help inshrinking the social illness that resulted in the Nazi Holocaust?

Answer 1

We can oppose it by calling it what it is and curbing ourselves on traditional speech (the old religious epitaph "Christ-killers," while not initially straight-up racial, as evidenced by statements like "the Christian race" or later "the Muhammadan race") certainly hurt things. We must be very careful what we see, seeing what unforeseen fruit that kind of language has wrought (look at the slaughter of Jews during the Black Death and other times, often continuing even against the wishes of ecclesiastical authorities).

Secondly, it is, sadly, growing. Europe has long been a hotbed, but with the influx of Islam and the radicalization of it in Europe, the hate of Jews (not exactly antisemitism when done by a Semite, which many of the Muslims are). Then there's the counter-movements that traditionally hated Jews or were ambivalent toward them. Well, they've got one Semitic religion bombing things, and so the Jews will get lumped in with it (sadly, sometimes in the name of Christianity, an essentially Jewish religion).

Then there's also the facet that if something bad happens in the world, everybody responds, almost in unison, "Hey guys, I think the Jews did (insert accusation). Let's get'em!" The world is a powder keg, and the Jews are probably going to catch it when it explodes :(.

Answer 2

First of all, if you want people to believe that you think anti-Semitism is an ugly undercurrent, then please don't use the term Jew-Hate. And boy are you in the wrong place to ask a question like that! After visiting this site for months now, my perception is that there is more anti-Jewishness going on here than I have ever seen anywhere else. Type Jew or Jewish into the search engine and see what kinds of questions have been asked. It is disturbing and depressing that in the United States of America, a country we say is the best in the world, there is so much bigotry and hatred towards minorities.

Answer 3

I have an acquaintance that hates Jewish people. He doesn't realize that I have some Jewish heritage, and constantly badmouths Jews in front of me... it really hurts me that this guy acts this way.
But, to answer your question, I do think that Anti-Semitism is growing... maybe not as physically violent as the Holocaust, but it's definitely more than an undercurrent in society.

Answer 4

I believe Jew hating to be on an incredible high level. The converted Jews by religion have been known to persecute Jews by heritage. The Holocaust, most of those Jews were converted by faith in the religion, and when they were dropped off in Israel where Jews by heritage were actually at peace with Palestinians; converted Jews became 1st, Heritage Jews became 2nd, and Palestinians became 3rd class citizens. Some Jews by heritage have spoken out publicly (in NYC) but their Jewish brothers and sisters have condemned them traitors to Zion. New heights I say that most do not even see.

Answer 5

Good question. I think that anti-semitism has very little to do with religion per se, and everything to do with class envy. The real reason many people hate Jews is that they tend to be smarter on average than gentiles and thus over-represented in lucrative professions like doctor or lawyer. That whole 'blood libel' and 'Christ-killer' religious nonsense is some excuse that anti-semites use to justify their hatred (and avoid acknowledging their class envy). Personally, I've dated a couple of Jewish women, and find them just as nice as gentile women.

I think anti-semitism has gone down, as a whole, in the Western world since the Holocaust. However, it's been skyrocketing among the Moslem world since 1947. Then there are people in America and Europe who tolerate Jews in general, but are hostile to Israel because they think it's a belligerent country. In all, I really have no clue...

Answer 6

Anti-semitic feelings seem to always be the same. The difference is that today people are bound by laws to express their views physically, thus a lack of pogroms. There are still silent masses who would not hold back a moment from joining Hitler if they could.

Answer 7

Unfortunately its growing. The leader of Iran had the conference last year to deny the Holocaust happened and he earlier said the temple was not where the Jews say it was.God bless the Jews, and God bless Israel.

Answer 8

Hardly anyone ever gives me a hard time about it, but then, I'm half-Jewish and a Christian. The last person I heard throw off on the Jewish people didn't know I was half-Jewish, and believe me, they got a verbal smack-down.

Answer 9

unfortunately its not going away .