I’ve had some business dealings in Central and South America. Have been rather stunned by the manner in which nasty anti-Semitic comments will pop up out of the blue, unsolicited and generally off-topic.
I’m not Jewish. The business had nothing to do with Israel.
But they somehow felt the need to share some unsolicited Jew hatred.
Antisemitism is again becoming fashionable in Europe. Absent of course is the harsh ugly rhetoric and carictures. However boycotts of Israeli products, exclusion of Israeli academics from conferences at major universities, and physical attacks on Jews in Western European cities is troubling.
Jews “stand for” the reality of God (as Creator, loving, and .... expecting loving, moral behavior by His created critters... people).
Many people do NOT WANT that message.
They WANT to live their lives the way they wish (as immorally and hateful as that may be).
They RESENT that ANYBODY “stands for” a message that they somehow “should” lead more loving, moral lives.
(That Jews and Christians share or represent the same essential message in this world.... means that Christians suffer similar treatment to Jews ... whenever the “pagans” or “communists” or “progressives” or “Moslems” or “Islamicists” or other “terrorists” think they can get away with it.)
This is a visceral resentment ... it goes to the very core of the hate=filled person... they want to kill off the message and so, to do it, they lash out at and kill the carriers of that message.
All the world hates Jews - they’d like nothing better than to see Israel destroyed and all Jews annihilated. But then, who would they focus their anger on???
Quoth Hillary, the next president of Amerika:
“F****** Jew B*******”