“Some scorn is a result of envy or resentment”
That reminds me of something mentioned in one of FF Bruce’s books.
In pre-Christian times one of the largest Jewish settlements was in Alexandria Egypt, which had been ruled by the Greek Ptolemys until they were conquered by the Romans.
The remaining Greeks resented being under Roman rule but there wasn’t much of anything they could do about it but nurse a grudge.
Alexandrian Jews, in contrast to the Greeks, got along just fine with the Roman ruling class, and this tended to stick in the craw of the grudge-nursing Greek populace. At some point one of the Roman emperors died, leaving a temporary vaccuum of power, so the Greeks seized the opportunity to pound on their Jewish neighbors for the crime of sucking up to the hated Romans.
Some make poor political choices and all pay the price when the hammer falls