Its mostly in Europe but I really don’t understand it.
It is true that during past economic problems in Europe, the Jewish people banded together to help each other.
It might be simple “They have more money”.
The Jewish people DO value Quality education more than others.
That could be part of it, but I don’t think that still explains it. They often have more money, but the Jews in Fiddler on the Roof were really poor and still they were persecuted.
“It might be simple “They have more money”.”
It’s a combination of things:
- religious reasons.
- lack of assimilation or surrender to the dominant culture.
- association (real or imagined) between Jews and disliked groups in society.
- economic or clout envy.
- real or imagined avarice associated with Jews.
- assumptions about Jews being parasites, persecutors, exploiters, or clannish self-seekers in regard to the non-Jewish population.
- assuming individual unsavory examples of the Jewish population are directly representative of the entire Jewish population (e.g. one jerk - who happens to be Jewish - is thought to be representative of all Jews).
That covers it rather completely.
You pretty much summed it up. Dead on.
So try to answer why they are the ONLY major voting block to CONTINUALLY vote against their interests? They SHOULD vote Republican if they want to keep their (very) hard-earned money, but they keep voting Democrat...the same people that would send them to the NAZI Death Camps, if they were still in operation.
I always thought it was because they held themselves apart. It is simple human nature to take resentment at this, and once felt, everything feeds into it.
If you follow the Bible, the Jews are “God’s chosen people” and the devil resents the Jews and drives other men to hate them.
Really, haters gonna hate. Jews had no homeland till Israel. So they were not “native” to any one country. As soon as something goes wrong folks are gonna point fingers. And they are not gonna point fingers at themselves. Gotta have a scapegoat.
I don't have a lot of experience dealing with Jews. In my small Southern town the only Jews emigrated from, mostly, New York years ago. Goldberg's and extended family mostly. There is no synagogue here, closest is in Birmingham.
But, I can see where, if you didn't get to know them, that they would be easy to dislike. Maybe cause they are Yankees, maybe cause they are Jews. Heck, maybe both. But once you get to know them, and more importantly, once they get to know you, they are great folks and a lot of fun to be around and funny (to me) and fun to party with.
One of the old ladies (dead now) was one of my special friends. She and her husband both. When I first got to know them I thought Good God! They bitched at each other, ordered each other around (her mostly), ordered me around, nothing was good enough....etc. etc. But after the initial shock you realized that she was just playing you and enjoyed nothing more than you giving it right back to her.
Anyway, with my limited experience, I've found that Jewish folks take a little time to warm up to. And they to you. And a lot of people just don't take the time....
Well, my little rant is sure not gonna cure antisemitism. Just a couple of observations.
I read an article within the last two years that said statistically, Jewish people have IQ’s around 115, Asians and Caucasians around 110. It goes down hill from there.
If you want to know why they think they should, read the Merchant of Venice by W. Shakespeare.
“Its mostly in Europe...”
Then, again, there’s the Middle East. Or had you forgotten about them?
That's because in pagan lands they were largely killed of.