Can We Ever Win Over Antisemites, Or Will They Always Hate Us?

Let’s keep it simple. Hatred of the Jew is caused by hatred of the Jew. Period. Whatever one hates or despises can always be pinned on the Jew: Too rich, too manipulative, too pushy, too aggressive, money hungry, lecherous,too loud, too crude, and on and on. The simple truth is: Jews are hated because they are Jews.

Shalom,
I am an African, a Nigerian and a Christian who dearly love the Jews.
Simply put, most people hate the Jews mainly because God loves them. If you study the Kitvei Hakodesh very well, you will understand that whosoever God loves, such person will be hated by the world. If God loves you, the world will hate you. God loves Israel and that is why the world hate the Jews.

I have never understood why there is hatred for Jewish people. I was raised in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. We were never taught or told to hate anyone. Treat everyone as you wished to be treated and never dislike or hate someone because of who they are, what race, etc. never played a part with who my friends were over the years.

I think it is a combination of religion, racism, culture and maybe envy as jews have thrived against all odds.

Let’s keep is simple. Anti-semitism is just one of many faces of intolerance and oppression.
Sadly, human beings are naked monkeys who can aspire to “angelic” virtues but also often sink down to the lowest levels of animality. And the animal is by nature territorialist and sectarian. Under some stressful circumstances, humans behave like rats that merciless attack other (slighlty different) rodents. The expanded, glorious human being can go beyond all that mud and find higher grounds. But this is rare, sadly. Often through History, jewish communities have provided strong contributions to that rare and necessary improvement of human nature: they have provided artists, intellectuals, trade, internationalism… And they have been prosecuted and harmed just by the fact that they were not exactly the same as other people in the places where they settled down. And they have been badly, and absolutely unfairly, harmed, and for centuries. And that harm, as modern epigenetics (at last!) prove, is [genetically] inherited, and has consequences (sadly) in the next generations. All the accumulated offence on jewish people has cristalized on a defensive attitude. For some, the question became: “them or us”. Which is quite sad, but to some point understandable. However, that attitude is a descent, not an ascent, in terms of the Spirit. The point, the question, in my opinion is not “for how long jews will be oppressed” but “for how long will be injustices and abuses played on human beings on the hands of another human beings”.

In researching the diverse racial lineages within the Spaniards that settled the Pecos Valley of New Mexico beginning in 1800 an interesting pattern emerged. Those who later opened country stores after the coming of the railroad in 1880 were Spanish speaking, with old-testament names. They had a penchant for merchandising and were very good at it. However, their better aptitude was a willingness to help out their neighbors by extending credit. Many who incurred debt sometimes sold off a small parcel of land (for more than the land was worth) to these storekeepers in order to satisfy accounts that had been delinquent for years. They did this of their own volition and not through any coaxing by the storekeepers. The storekeepers would have preferred at least partial payment for these debts which were mostly for groceries, hardware, and money borrowed. A cash flow was preferable in order to restock store shelves. I could bet that the old storekeepers in the valley were of partial Jewish lineage even if the language had been forgotten back in old Spain. Because many of these storekeepers, two who were a grandfather and a great grandfather, acquired small parcels of land through outstanding debts, many neighbors equated them with “leperous merchandisers”, and on several occasions I did hear a storekeeper being called a little Jew in Spanish. After reading through old store ledgers full of bad credit I would say that because of a merchandising tradition the Jews and those of partial Jewish lineage have been unjustly maligned simply because people tend to forget where they found help when they needed it, at least that’s what happened during the era of old country stores in the Upper Pecos Valley. To this day a few neighbors lament that heir ancestors lost a small parcel of land to “un tiendero lepero”, a cheating storeowner. My merchandising ancestors ran their stores while incurring heavy losses and died poor. Any kind of business can make many enemies even if it is fair or extra fair to its customers. Furthermore, a dishonest business, when it exists, is not limited to any one race.

There always been hate. It more noticeable today because of the media Hitler killed anyone that was not of the so called pure white race (German) He killed non whites in Germany of African decent Hatred is evil We see it throughout the world In American more hatred today forward none whites Personally I do not if a person is a Jew I just see skin color But a so called pure white racist know the different I just know if a person tell he is of the Jewish faith Which can be any race

Esau is Edom, and that name Edom has been used mystically to refer to western Europeans, or the Roman empire in the Bible. There are harsh words of condemnation and even destruction of Edom in Scripture. I think Europeans know about it and that Jews will be used by God as an instrument for their punishment. That may be part of the reason of so much hatred

I never used to dislike Jewish people. But I am being treated very badly by Jewish people in the condo I live in. The Board is all Jewish. They liked me until they found out I wasn’t Jewish (they made a big deal about it when they found this out, and kept saying it over and over: “Really, you’re not Jewish? We thought you were Jewish.” They then did a 180 in the way they treated me. They screwed me over every chance they got. They won’t abide by the laws and blatantly ignore my requests for services that they are supposed to be providing all of us. I have lost 10 years of my life fighting for normal building things to be fixed. This aggravation has been very harmful to my physical and financial health. I lost a lot of money and work time fighting these battles. A similar thing happened when I landed a part time job at a Jewish Center. Now, how am I supposed to feel? I was always nice to them. You tell me how I am supposed to feel.

I am not Jewish, but have never had hatred for them. The thing that caused me to scratch my head was, after I had gotten older and maybe wiser, the fact that they seem to own or control nearly everything. This was not relayed to me in school. In fact, that point was swept under the rug and not discussed.

I just don ‘t understand such hatred. There is no room in this world for this kind of evil.

jews may own much relative to their minority status, but obviously much more is owned by everyone else …some people are overachievers — not just jews, but all kinds of people