Why do some people hate Jews and Israel?

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• The licence for anti-semitism can be found in the Bible, where the Jews who killed Jesus said Let his blood be upon their heads, and upon the heads of their descendants unto the furtherest generation. This has historically been taken to mean that the Jews of today are just as guilty as their ancestors for the death of Jesus.
  
• I'd say this hatred towards other religions, their people or countries is due to the fact that these groups hold views which are in complete opposition to what the "hater" has come to believe. In the case of the Jewish people they, while acknowledging Jesus might have been a man of God, do not accept him as the Son of God and thus this challenges a basic tenant of most Christian religions. While most religions state they can accept the beliefs of others they all hold deep beliefs that they are right and everyone else is wrong. And of course this hatred doesn't just extent to religious matters but almost every difference unique in mankind's existence. Your color, your language, your food, your culture, your place of existence. You name it we all find things to dislike in others. Sometimes trivial sometimes earth shattering. And in the end it seems to be a code of human existence that our ignorance or failure is many times passed off as someone else's fault. The leaders who stand and profess goodness to all are most of the time the promoters of the very differences that drive out hatred.

• Humans are very good at hating people different from themselves. The Jews have been around a long time, and have lived in a lot of different places. Therefore, lots of enemies. As if denying the deity of Jesus wasn't enough.

• I don't believe it is a hatred for the people necessarily, it is senseless to hate innocent people simply because they belong to a particular ethnic, racial or social group. When considering the ramification surrounding issues dealing with world power which is above and beyond the understanding of most in society. I think the [hatred] is more focused on Zionist self-interest.

• The Jews have been systematically demonised and subject to all kinds of conspriracy theories since the time of the First Crusade (1095-1099). Obviously, there have been times when this has been more intense and times when things were rather better for Jews. I think there's little disagreement that Jew-baiting peaked in the Holocaust. More recently, hostility to Israel in some of the media seems to has spilled over into a more general hostility towards Jews.

• We humans tend to be jealous of people who have more money, resent people who have more political power, and distrust anyone from a different culture. Obviously, Jews win the triple crown of scapegoating. They're usually the richest and most politically influential ethnic group, per capita, wherever they live, and they're always very different culturally from the majority. The cultural distinction sometimes makes people suspect that "the Jews" are all acting together as a team bent on subjecting the world to their own interests, or that their different value system and lesser solidarity with the majority community gives them an unfair advantage in acquiring wealth and power. The Christian teaching is that we shouldn't think about such things, but should instead concentrate on our own values and our own responsibility to the community, and let God worry about whether other people are doing the same. But the flesh is weak, and we sometimes fall short of that ideal. The Jews in Israel are the prime example of anti-Jewish sentiment today. They're a very small minority in the Middle East, with values seemingly opposite to those of the majority, and they have the greatest wealth and power in the region, as expressed in advanced military technology and US economic and military aid. Also, Muslims contend that Jews didn't live in that part of the world for 19 centuries, and were only moved into the region after the discovery of oil, to help sow discord, to divide and conquer as it were, and to make it easier for oil imperialists to control everything; i.e. that Israel is a kind of invading and occupying colonial force, or as Noam Chomsky said, "the local cop on the beat". The Israeli position is that Jews have always lived there, and their interest in living there has nothing to do with oil, Europe, or the US. But that debate is a specialized case that applies only to Israel and not to the general question of animosity toward Jews.

• The way I see it, only Christians and Muslims hate the Jews. Why? Maybe because it is their parent religion and hating, and blaming the Jews put a semblance of legitimacy on why they broke away. The same way why the Protestant (of earlier times) hated Catholics, and later on, why the Protestants hated the breakaway Anabaptists, The Mennonites hating the Anabaptist, the Amish hating the Mennonites. The lists goes on and on. Have you ever noticed that the newly formed Christians denominations bad-mouthing the other elder denominations? That's also the reason why most questions posted in this websites concentrates on the differences (which are few) of different religion and denominations and became blind to similarities (which are many) of the Doctrines....Yet they all preaches"Love Thy Neighbor."Matthew 15: 7] Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,[8] This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
  

• In addition to the answers above it is interesting to note that Jews were very much discriminated against in medieval England. They were barred from holding most jobs, and so resorted to working as tax collectors and money-lenders. Loaning money at interest, which at that time was called "usury" (though today the term means charging exorbitant interest), was considered immoral and was prohibited among Christians. This made Jews an easy target for hate. Eventually, in 1290, Jews were totally banned from living in England. The ban was not repealed until 1656.
  

• People who hate Jews and Israel are people who have been misinformed. Some people believe the Jews, or more accurately, the Israelites are an African nation and that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were born in Africa, lived in Africa and died in Africa. As for the State of Israel, they believe it is a colony that was created by the British. All colonies represent the unlawful taking of land. Israel was the name given to Jacob, Israel was not a land. Those who follow this view believe the people who occupy the Israeli State are not Jews, they are Europeans and are not descendants of Abraham and therefore have no right to claim Jerusalem as the land of their ancestors.

• It started with Constantine and spiraled from there. When the church was divided between the Jewish Christians and the Gentile Christians. The Jewish calander, feasts and traditions passed down from the 1st Century apostles were done away with. Jews were loathed as KILLING THE CHRISTIAN MESSIAH.
• Obviously, not everyone hates or even dislikes the Jews. Some also dislike Jews for reasons that have nothing to do with religion. One possible reason is that the Jews tend to keep themselves apart from other people. I often wonder if Hitler's ideas would have found such fertile soil if more Jews in Germany had real non-Jewish friends, not just acquaintances. Many Jews also look down on other people. There are derogatory Jewish terms like shiksa to refer to a non-jew. Often a person cheated by a Jew will declare all Jews guilty, not just the one who cheated him. I've known many Jews and even had a few Jewish friends. They are much the same as other people. Among them you will find all types, good and bad.

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