Why do many people hate the jews?
Question by Jenniew Chenn: Why do many people hate the jews?
Between the years 250 CE and 1948 CE, Jews have experienced more than eighty expulsions from various countries in Europe – an average of nearly one expulsion every twenty-one years. Jews were expelled from England, France, Austria, Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, Bohemia, Moravia and seventy-one other countries.
Why do people always try to kill the Jews? It seems every Jewish holiday is about someone trying to kill them and the person failed, so the Jews celebrate.
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There is no palatable reason.
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Jews have long been a convenient scape goat for many peoples problems. When something went wrong for instance WW1 many germans blamed jews along with communists and their own government for stabbing them in the back.
Because it was the Jews who crucified Christ. Not the Jews of today of course, but people don’t care about that. People like to hang on to past transgressions and use them against people who they believe aren’t up to par. Unfortunately, that’s human nature.
The Jews teach that the righteous from all nations will have a place in the reselection, people that say they have the only way do not like this.
The jews are the chosen ones, and christians and mulsims simply cannot handle that. They are jealous, and this leads to violence.
Jews are known for only supporting other Jews and treating all gentiles as inferior goyas. There may be a few exceptions but by and large this is the norm as dictated in their books.
There aren’t that many Jews world wide, and they are truly survivors. They also tend to value education and often excel. I believe it is jealousy, and yes, it also has to do with being God’s chosen people. People are envious, particularly of those who have thrived so well and achieved so much in spite of many obstacles.
Jews are UNFAIRLY blamed for death of Jesus, it was not the Jews but the Roman high officials
Here’s an explanation:
Basically going back to early Christianity, the way the early church father’s framed things, wasn’t very nice about Jews. They were called children of the devil (that’s in NT as well), & killers of christ (deicide being the most central claim to hatred of Jews), & all sorts of versions of “evil.”
Over time all of that stewed & grew & was implemented in Church policies at Jews. Including the Church only allowed Jews to work as money lenders & tax collectors at one point. You can image how much favor those careers won?
Then Martin Luther thought Jews would convert to HIS version of Christianity & when they still “rejected” him, he wrote as much slander as he could imagine with practically on outline on how to exterminate them, in his book “The Jews & their Lies.”
From there it developed even more mythology & images in the secular world, gaining some independence from the theology. For instance blaming Jews for being capitalist pigs & communistists. Controllers of the media & out to take over the world & wimps. Often with completely opposite contradictory images.
The Muslims in the Middle East imported the Christian views at various more recent times & had their own sense of needing to be always superior to Judaism. So with Israel winning wars & standing on it’s own in “their terroritory” that was so shameful plus there was already animosity at the west, that it created even more issues. One piece both polulations agreed on is that Jews defending themselves is unacceptable. (There are good Jewish jokes on this. AntiIsraeli politics often vilify Israel actions distinctly self-defense.)
That was the short version. Anything this old (over 2000 years) & ingrained has many roots & branches. Hence the many people. People in places that have never seen a Jew hate Jews, often more than places with lots of Jews. So it’s not about Jews in person. (Germany had less than 1/2 % Jewish & they were highly assimilated. Poland had 30% Jewish & many religious as well as assimilated. The Holocaust started in Germany.)
Importantly, Christians as well as secular have been working to look at this & move away from it & it is so much appreciated by the Jewish community. Christianity’s focus is on being a loving religion, so for many Christian’s it’s a shock to find out how much humans strayed from that collectively & as substantial parts of the religion. I’m impressed at those who are able to look, & help heal from it. This site is good: http://www.jcrelations.net
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This site is the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Studies. This page has one of the charming quotes that set the tone. That should answer the crux of the question.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ncche/015101.…
A quote from it:
“Still, the early church fathers were worried that newly baptized Christians would fall back into their “Jewish ways” or find the practices of Judaism to be preferable to those of Christianity. To combat this so called “Judaizing” of Christianity, they often railed against Judaism; none more vehemently than St. John Chrysostom, who proclaimed that:
The Jews are the most worthless of all men. They are lecherous, greedy, rapacious. They are perfidious murderers of Christ…The Jews are the odious assassins of Christ and for killing God there is no expiation possible, no indulgence or pardon. Christians may never cease vengeance, and the Jews must live in servitude forever. God always hated the Jews. It is incumbent upon all Christians to hate the Jews.”
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That gives an idea. There are many ways to approach answering this. This site has a section “Why the Jews?” that lists all the types of hate reasons at Jews: http://www.aish.com
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Excuses, excuses
Chosen – doesn’t mean superior but chosen for the Jewish team, & Arabs for the Arab team, etc.. The Torah says Arabs will be a great nation (from Ishamel). It says non-Jews can have a place in the world to come based on their behavior & a good relationship with God.
I can’t fully answer this question. What I can say is I believe most jews are good people. I like most jews I have met, and if you wanted to group people based on religion I do not think a greater percentage of jews are bad people compared to other religions. I firmly believe that, but jews do see themselves as Gods chosen people. That is as far as I am going with this question.