Ignoring this fellow's obvious issues of bias and anger, what is the answer to that question? Certainly, Jews, more than any other group, have been the target of prejudice and hatred. Why is that? Why should this one group be the subject of so much hostility?
The fact that they call themselves "The Chosen People" doesn't help. I think this arouses anger and jealousy in a lot of people--especially those who suspect it is true.
"Ignoring this fellow's obvious issues of bias and anger, what is the answer to that question? Certainly, Jews, more than any other group, have been the target of prejudice and hatred. Why is that? Why should this one group be the subject of so much hostility?"
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Perhaps, like the distorted rates of gain calculated for mutual funds (ignoring the ones that crashed and burned in earlier periods, and attending only to the ones that are still in operation), this sense that the Jews are "more than any other group" victims is just another case of "survivor bias" ( http://www.savantcapital.com/sbiasstudy/ )?
There are plenty of groups that are "no longer available to kick around" because previous generations of persecutors completely exterminated them. Several are recorded in the Bible, and the histories of American native tribes include several that are completely gone, just like the Tasmaninian aborigines were completely eliminated by the European settlers of Australia.
Like the old Timex watch, the Jews have had many a licking but they just "keep on ticking" (while their enemies tend to be among the groups that disappear completely from the scene, at least as persisting cultures, after taking their "best licks", e.g. the Edomites). You would think the adversaries could get a clue after while, but apparently not.
God said that they would.
I am sure there are many opinions but here is my take.
1. The Jews project an appearance of a lack of a sense of nationality.
Jewish Americans, Jewish Germans,or Jewish anything are perceived to be American Jews and German Jews etc. Not a part of the society but living within it.
2. Jews are a successful group within the societies they live in, and this brings jealousy and resentment on them. They are disproportunately represented at the top level of our Government and in the liberal media
3. They know that goy societies are not going to give them any extra help,and are in fact prejudiced against them, so they have to make it on their own, and are so motivated to succeed.
4. Jews don't go around trying to convert people to Judaism so their numbers can only grow by birthing. So they will always be a minority and suffer the slings and arrows of the majority.
5. Most of the people the Jews come in contact with are Christians and Muslims which IMHO are heretical outgrowths of Judaism, which would tend to make the Christians and Moslems look down on the Jews who missed the message of Christ and Mohammed.
6. They are big supporters of socialism which tends to turn conservatives against them.
Fire away- tom
"Why should this one group be the subject of so much hostility?"
Jealousy, ignorance and generations of fools passing antisemitism on to their kids
However, there have been many peoples around the world who have been the targets of persecution and oppression, along with Jews. Dismissing their plight as less than that of the Jews is more than a little disrespectful.
"Certainly, Jews, more than any other group, have been the target of prejudice and hatred. Why is that? Why should this one group be the subject of so much hostility?"
"they have been entrusted with the very words of God" (Romans 3:2)
It's that simple to me. Through the Jews came Christ, and this brings out what's hidden in every man.
Why? Some of it originated in anti-Jewish teachings of the Church Fathers, I am afraid to say, which several states adopted as official policy. Fortunately, Christian anti-Semitism is waning - and then there is Jimmah Carter, an anti-Semite if there ever was one. As for Mel Gibson, he is the son of a Holocaust denier who also believes that Jews are "Christ killers" and is angry at the Popes who say otherwise.
First, whenever the Jews moved into an area (such as those in Europe), they set themselves apart in particular ways. The ways in which they lived said to the indigenous population (in Europe, Catholics and later all types of Christians):
1) Your children are not good enough for my children (no social contact or intermarriage)
2)Your food is not good enough for me (we only eat kosher food), and
3) Your God is not good enough for me (We consider Him a false prophet)
Now that alone would be enough to invite anger from the population, but the Jews made it worse. How? Because they were successful intellectually and economically. Just my opinion...