What has caused the hatred of Jews (at any time of history you want to address)?

Question

Be honest.

Promise not to "report": you regardless of opinion expressed.

I'm not a jew and I don't understand it.

Answer 1

Most civilizations have been known because they fear the Jews, I will leave you with a few quotes, and you decide for yourself:

"...whatever other qualities Jews may posses, likable or the reverse, no one who knows them well can deny that they are personally interesting. By that I mean, specially alive, alert, quick at comprehending people or events and at making pungent or witty comments on them... One might at times find the rather hothouse family atmosphere, with it intensities and frictions, somewhat trying, but one could be sure of never being bored."
- Ernest Jones - British psychoanalyst (1879-1958)


"Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth..."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German dramatist, novelist and poet (1749 - 1832)


"if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history."
- David Gelernter, Yale University Professor


"Mankind, East and West, Christian and Muslim, accepted the Jewish conviction that there is only one G-d. Today it is polytheism that is so difficult to understand, that is so unthinkable."
- T.R. Grover, The Ancient World, p. 186


The Jews have survived multiple mass killings, one attempted Genocide and have been resotred to their promise land in Israel not one, but two times, just as it was prophisized in the book of Isaiah.

Answer 2

I am not a Jew, so I am by no means an expert on this, but I believe that Jews were hated because they were/are different. It is the same in almost any situation, someone is always hated and despised for doing or believing something different than whatever the most people believe at the time. It is a sad but true tale.

Answer 3

In terms of how it works itself out, there are many apparent causes, the most obvious of which is the Ishmael/Isaac issue. When Abraham was promised a child that would become God's chosen people, he had sex with his wife's maid and that produced Ishmael, the father of the Arab nations. (See: Genesis 16:12 "He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone's hand will be against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers.") Isaac, though, was the promised son through his wife and was the one who got the blessing and the first son birthrite. Isaac's descendants became Israel --- and that helps explain the conflict between the Arabs and the Jews. (Notice how, lately, many Arab nations are calling for Israel to be wiped off the map? Particularly Iran).

In terms of Christian people, to our SHAME it has worked its way into the Christian worldview that because the Jews called for Jesus' death, we should be against them. I am not saying that most or even very many Christians feel this way today. But it has been a historical problem in the past.

But what is the *underpinning* of this hate? It is that in scripture, God says that the Jews will return to Him and weep as though their firstborn son had died before Jesus returns. This is true; Jews will return to Jesus I believe, their promised, long awaited Messiah. I *truly* believe that satan puts hate in the hearts of men against the Jews so that there won't be a SINGLE JEW LEFT to fulfill this prophecy and Jesus won't be able to return. I don't care if this makes me seem whackadoo, I believe it. Just LOOK at all of the attempts that men have made to exterminate the Jews!

To me, the continued persecution of the Jews is about as obvious of proof we have of the God of the Bible and His Word as anything we have; I mean why else *would* they be so hated and persecuted? If they weren't really God's chosen people, and if there wasn't a God in the first place. Just some stuff to think about.

Answer 4

Jealousy.

Since the year dot Jews have been astute businessmen & traders. They are a close knit society & don't rely on others.

They will never ask for help of any kind. They do their own thing. Others witness their success & compare their own failures to them & resent it immensely.

Take their armed forces for instance. They will not allow non-Jews to serve or fight for them. But they have many Jews from around the world going to Israel to join up & fight for that country.

I'm not a Jew. I don't think I even know one.

Answer 5

People dislke jewish people for different reason. I met a lady who had bad experence with some jewish people. She was raised in Syria and Lebanan. She's in her 70's and has seen some bad the by the had of some jewish people when she was young. I have not problem with them but sometimes people do thing and the person generalize that with all the people of that faith

Answer 6

Gosh, the Jews have been hated by one group or another since they were slaves in Egypt. The Egyptians feared them so they enslaved them. Hitler hated them cause he was a racist pig, and I don't know why they are hated nowadays, except the Palestine's want their land.....

Answer 7

Ahhhhhhh, where to begin with this...... The person above me that mentioned about the claiming of land, that is one reason....... another is the accute ability they have to survive.... the other is the super natural ability , for most, each of them have to keep just one small step ahead of the rest of the human race....... Jealousy is a major part of the hate people have for the Jewish National People..... The very fact they ARE is reason enough for some to hate them...... The Jewish people are protected in ways that we mere Gentiles will NEVER understand to the fullest...... I for one LOVE and embrace the Jewish people.... I KNOW I am brought into the family of Christ because of them.....I was grafted into the vine because of them....... I know what is coming for them when the time is right, and I pray always for them...... and this is how it should be....... go in peace...... God bless

Answer 8

said to be God's chosen people they are often hated they do not conform to common society they are often thought of as different they were instructed by God to set themselves apart in many was there were and are guidelines for clothes and food and worship....just makes them not the same a good symbol of sanctifacation but for some a target...there may be better answers but this was a good question and I like to answer good ones!!

Answer 9

There are Jews that are not from the line of Judah...
They only claim to be Jews.
They are the ones that cried out for the death of Christ..not the true Jews from Judah.

Answer 10

I personally believe that the Jews are hated so badly because they rejected Jesus when he was on earth. They didn't believe that he was the Messiah that God sent for them. So as punishment God made them into what they are. But one day God will give them another chance to be saved(In the tribulation) and they will realize that Jesus is the Messiah.