Why the Jews?

Question

I am in no way a anti-semite, nor am I jewish.. I just always wondered, it seems like throughout history they have always suffered.. why is that?

Thank you all for your answers, you all have made good points... I'll leave it up to the voters to decide which one is the best answer

Answer 1

Ever heard of self inflicted suffering? Jews have been expelled from something like 278 countries in recorded history. Each time they got expelled from one country they ran to the next one and continued with the same behavior that got them ran out off the last one. Jews are known to be intelligent people. You would think they would figure out why they are so "Persecuted" and modify their behavior to change that but, No, They go from one country to the next and set up high interest loan offices, Take over the media, and start teaching children that their parents are evil and wrong.
Study some history, You will find this is exactly what they have done in every country they have supposedly been persecuted in through out history.
Considering this question is about Jews I don't expect it will last long on here before it gets deleted.


Witty Weasel, Ummm, I'm not a Christian. Just educated rather than taking the propaganda at face value.

Answer 2

Aside from the 'chosen' factor... I think it also has to do with numbers and tenacity.

Jews seldom make up more than 5% of a given population of a country (except Israel obviously). Such minorities almost aLways suffer some persecution, whatever the reason or motive of the majority.

But when minority groups are tenacious, persevere and not only exist but perhaps thrive... they are essentially remain there to be persecuted or suffer lesser annoyances like getting picked on or used as a scapegoat.

Being a scapegoat has the appearance of involvement but in fact neither fault or involvement may exist at all.

Much of the problem lies in the majority not understanding the customs or the rigidity of Judaism. That raises misunderstandings and suspiscions- many of which are unfounded.

Answer 3

First off, in the light of some comments above, I would say that "Christian" anti-Semitism is completely inconsistent. As Nietzsche says:

"[T]he Jews are the most *catastrophic* people of world history: by their after-effect they have made mankind so thoroughly false that even today the Christian can feel anti-Jewish without realizing that he himself is the *ultimate Jewish consequence*."
[Nietzsche, The Antichrist(ian), section 24.]

"Christian" anti-Semitism is a case of the pot calling the kettle black (hence Nietzsche's title, *Der Antichrist*, which means both "The Antichrist" and "The Anti-Christian"). Nietzsche's noble anti-Semitism included anti-Christianism, i.e., anti-ignoble-anti-Semitism.

The diaspora (dispersion) of the Jews began with the destruction of the Jewish nobility, i.e., their warrior caste. They suffered military defeat against the Babylonians, who conquered them and took many with them to Babylon as slaves (the Babylonian Captivity). This loss of their warrior caste was the most fateful thing ever to happen to Judea. As, again, Nietzsche writes:

"The Jews tried to prevail [as a people] after they had lost two of their castes, that of the warrior and that of the peasant; in this sense they are the "castrated": they have the priests--and then immediately the chandala [rabble]--"
[Nietzsche, The Will to Power, section 184.]

It should be noted that the National Socialists of the Third Reich despised the Slavs, who had also lost their warrior caste, yet who were Aryans, whereas they admired the Arabs and the Japanese, who they both considered un-Aryan, but who still retained their warrior castes.

"Christian" anti-Semitism, ignoble anti-Semitism, is a case of rivalry and envy, i.e., of resentment; Nietzschean anti-Semitism, noble anti-Semitism, is a case of contempt, of the contempt of the manly for the "castrated":

"Rome felt the Jew to be something like anti-nature itself, its antipodal monstrosity as it were: in Rome the Jew stood "*convicted* of hatred for the whole human race"; and rightly, provided one has a right to link the salvation and future of the human race with the unconditional dominance of aristocratic values, Roman values."
[Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, I.16]

The Jews have always suffered because of said resentment and said contempt (deserved or not).

Answer 4

I'd give Extreme 10 thumbs up if i could.........

I used to think exactly like you, until I did my own research...when one's perception isn't destorted by media influence, it doesn't take alot of brains to see the plain truth of it.

edit: oh hey, well i just wanted to add there seems to be alot of "opinions" on here but if you will take my advice, it is always the best to seek out the truth for yourself from neutral sources - for me, I remember thinking "why IS there so much trouble in the Middle East? Why do the arabs hate the jews so much?" Believe me, I was on the jews side at that time - but I knew some things just didn't make sense - I wanted to know the truth not what people tell me so I consulted the history books on the history of israel and the history of the jewish people and let's say history became an "open book". And that led me to wanna know what their religion promotes (which is so fundamental to the lifestyle of jews) etc etc...I know I am not racist, but I live for the truth and justice - i shouldn't have to be accused because of that - Tschau :)

Answer 5

Up until the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. the Jews were just another bunch of strange ducks with the same ups-and-downs as every other nation.

The trouble really started when the Council of Nicea began codifying the early Church's doctrines and distancing itself from its Jewish roots.

From rejecting its roots to actively persecuting the Jews didn't take long once the rapidly growing Church gained political and economic power. That just deepened the 1878 year long exile and oppression that ended in 1948 with the re-birth of the nation of Israel.

Now the Jews can respond to any persecution . . . and have done so, successfully, against all odds, seven times so far (not including the ninety years of virtually daily terrorist attacks they've endured at the hands of the Mohammedans).

The current Islamic persecution is just an extension of the seeds sown by the early Church and which Mohammed incorporated in the Koran when the Jews of Arabia refused to accept him as a prophet . . . with good reason as we can all see today.

Nobody promised the Jews an easy road, but then nothing of real value ever comes easily . . .

Look at what the Jews have endured . . . and what they've contributed to art, science, medicine, music, literature, philosophy, mathemathics, etc. under those conditions . . .

It's a stumper, all right . . . !

*NOTE* : "extreme" 's answer is pretty much a perfect example of where two thousand years of institutionalized Christian anti-Semitism has led . . . it's sad.

*NOTE #2*: "extreme" - Did I say you were Christian? Nope!
Your *mentality* is a direct result of 2000 years of Christian anti-Semitism . . .

You'll notice that there's no anti-Semitism in non-Christian or non-Islamic countries. Jewish communities have existed for two thousand years in India, China, the Far East, animist Africa, etc. with no problems.


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Answer 6

People are jealous of the accomplishments Jews have made.

Answer 7

Quit buying into the holocaust propoganda. Every group has experienced its share of suffering.

Answer 8

Historically they have a history of absorbing and not fighting back. The Israeli's have changed that, and their motto is "NEVER AGAIN".

Answer 9

because the middle east has always been the armpit of the world.

Answer 10

They get a bad wrap.