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eatpraylove · 56-60, F
because they take land from people.
imagine someone just shows up at your door one day and says, you don't live here anymore. it is now my house, how would you feel?
eatpraylove · 56-60, F
@wildbill83 I don't hate anybody. I was answering a question. and I answered it correctly. and if someone tries to take my land I would fight for it. wouldn't you?
wildbill83 · 36-40, M
@eatpraylove And if someone took land that was always mine to begin with, and they fought me for trying to take it back... I'd bury them in it... ☺
eatpraylove · 56-60, F
@eatpraylove plus they always steal the sweet-n-low.

Anti-semitism has its roots in economic and social segregation in early Renaissance Europe. Jews were excluded from the nobility who were landlords, and the nobility considered certain professions uncivilized, such as handling money, loaning money, investment, medicine.

Judaism also highly stresses education, so Jews dominated highly technical fields, and later were prevalent in the academy. Excluded from the economy, many took up trades that were passed on in families. Many Jewish surnames reflect that, such as my great grandmother's family name "Naegel" which comes from "nail" in German.
So as a truly modern economy forms, Jews were prevalent in finance, medicine, and new opportunities.

So a narrative forms that Jews are exploiting people, are money hungry, manipulative. Just like many narratives about large companies now-- except they are tied to Judaism. It's also tied to the Biblical narrative as the Jews are associated with the degenerate money changers that Christ challenged.

Jews were also in closed communities. Observant orthodox Jews also have very strict religious customs that set them apart from everyone else. Some of them are very quirky. And from that comes a sense of being entirely "other" to the rest of society, and one of the things that gets you is taking on superstitious ideas that float around society. People believed Jews were "shape shifters". They also believed Jews needed the blood of Christian babies to put into their matzohs. This sort of tracks the vibe of financial and economic parasitism.

So on the dawn of fascism in Europe there are people systematizing these ideas. Racial eugenics. Systematic presentations of anti-semitism like "The Eternal Jew". Of course this is all driven by social and economic crisis in central Europe, but the eternal Jew had long been the eternal scapegoat.

Zionism made it worse, particularly after the formation of the nation of Israel. Zionism preceded that, and preceded the shoah, the holocaust. But the formation of the nation of Israel after the holocaust, and the subsequent defense of Israel from its enemies then forever coupled American politics and military interest to Jewish identity. Whatever one thinks of Israel and Palestine, it's not a burden of every Jewish person.

And then there are a series of paranoid fantasies that come from Jewish presence in the media. That the holocaust never happened and was a fake in order to garner Jewish sympathy for Zionism. That they are the mastermind of a communist and liberal social agenda. This is a newer theme. I don't understand it as the Jewish banking conspiracy seems to be at odds with communism.

I figured I'd try to give a real answer as I was raised to be an anti-Semite and white supremacist. Now I'm not. It's really fascinating as you can see all these themes all over the internet. 4chan/pol is full of it. There's quite a bit of it here. I have witnessed Christian pastors echo a fair amount of this. And this shit is all centuries and centuries old.
FunReader55 · 51-55, M
@CopperCicada nice answer!
FunReader55 · 51-55, M
I’ll just add a couple quick thoughts as this post covered a gambit of trajectory.

Not disagreeing with anyone!

As short as I can say it, Jews do not believe Jesus has come to earth yet. They believe he will come one day. This flys directly against Christianity which believes Jesus has already come to earth and will come back again one day. Bottom line, at very least, one of them is wrong.

I believe Jewish is the only religion that is also a race.

This reason is just something I thought about. I could be wrong! Religions like Christianity are heavy into recruiting. To the point of being annoying. I think this gives an appearance of open acceptance. Jews do not recruit in that manner. In fact they are supposed to kind of act indifferent or almost ignore anyone’s initial inquirement into joining the Jewish religion. This is only done to ensure the inquirers desire is genuine. However, it’s unintended side affect is that it can come of as elitelist and unwelcoming.

The holy city of Jerusalem is claimed by both Jewish and Muslin faith. 1000 years back and beyond it changed hands veyeeen the two rivals many times. But when the Muslims last took control in the 1300s they held on to it until the end of WW2. When it was seized from them as part of the punishment for being on the losing side, and used to establish the Israel state.
@FunReader55 I think there's definitely some truth to that as well. The closed insular aspect of orthodox and Hassidic communities was off putting to many where I came up. You can share shabbos or seder with most Jews. But those communities are closed. In my community people would come to resent that a bit. Talk to people on the street and get ignored. Drop in a shop and get the cold shoulder. Now there are Hassidim moving into communities, and friends and family follow. And poof there is an insular enclave on your block.
Thingschange4444 · 51-55, M
Because like all ignorant people they tend to think every Muslim is a terrorist. Every Jew is a zionist every black person a crack addict and every white person privileged. Ignorance.
Miram · 31-35, F
Because some of us can kick ass.
Miram · 31-35, F
@NoYou

Yes, I was called a Jewish pig when I was a child because there were always rumors about our tribe being decedent of followers of Judaism. I was also called a savage because I am Amazigh by people who think they are purely Arabs. And I was beaten at school and children were told to not play with me.

My father is to blame actually. He denied the Jewish and arab ancestory mixed with mine and hated Arabs with a passion.

It is not simple.
NoYou · 26-30, M
@Miram I am really sorry to hear that. I hope you have moved out of that place and are in a better one now
Miram · 31-35, F
@NoYou Don't be. I am a worse nightmare than my past and those details are nothing.
wakanda4eva · 26-30, F
Money money money its so funny, in a rich mans world
NoYou · 26-30, M
@wakanda4eva But theres the ultra wealthy in every race, religion, and country..or whatever else you can filter by
wakanda4eva · 26-30, F
@NoYou u answered ur own question lol
greenmountaingal · 70-79, F
Hatred of that kind is irrational regardless of the ethnicity being targeted. It is often displaced anger leftover from other situations in the prejudiced person's life which are frustrating or humiliating.
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SW-User
no hate /but not a fan
their Sanhedrin liked crucifictions
NoYou · 26-30, M
@SW-User I understand that the Jews were accused of killing Christ but its no reason to actually stab someone in present day because of that
SW-User
yes
greenmountaingal · 70-79, F
@NoYou It would make as much sense as hating or attacking today's citizens of Rome, Italy because the Romans are historically "guilty" of the crucifixion.
@JaggedLittlePill i only think maybe he is jew trying to find out why other race hate them and he try to argue with them in order to defend his race
NoYou · 26-30, M
@YukikoAmagi no I’m not a Jew.. I’m just a human being concerned why another human being got shanked for pretty much no reason other than having a certain belief
@NoYou this is something that someone can't understand unless he is being part of either side. We outsider can't really understand, even if there is a reason we can only reject that reason
JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F
It is the new way to "speak your mind' blatant racism has been made ok. This has led the real crazies to then think they can do as they choose.
eatpraylove · 56-60, F
@JaggedLittlePill you don't think free speech is an important reason why our country is great. but I sure do. we can speak badly of our president, we can protest wars, we can try to change laws we don't believe in. it is truly a great and important freedom. countries that try to control their citizens speech are rarely nice places to live.

 
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