How have Jewish people been discriminated against throughout history, and in your opinion, why?

Question

How have Jewish people been discriminated against throughout history, and in your opinion, why?

Answer 1

Made to build the pyramids.

Got massacred in the WWII

Neither any good :P

Answer 2

I think that through out history the Jews have been hated more than even the n***s.  I think the holocaust is a good example of Jewish oppression.

I am not prejudice against Jews I know that Jews have been hated a lot through history.  I for one have nothing against them.  I think a lot of it goes back to the early pre-christian era.

Answer 3

Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians,  Romans, n***s, Soviets, Arabs, the UN, and the list goes on and on.

The meaning is far deeper than anything I could describe on yahoo answers.

It is important to stand with Israel, now and forever.

Answer 4

During the monstrous rule of Hitler,the Jewish people were rich and well off.Hitler made a propaganda that the poverty in Germany was due to these rich people and he indulged in cruel atrocities towards them and killed six million Jews.However,compared to what he did,the word discrimination is a misquote and too mild a word.

This started the wave of discrimination that spread to many other countries and with the fiery feeling of hostility gave rise to anti-semitism

The only country where it did not reach and will never reach is India !,

the great reason why every Indian Jew is proud of his or her motherland

Answer 5

There has been a lot of posting here some of it right and some wrong.

The basic reasons why the Jews were hated in ancient times was because a/ the belief that the Jews killed Jesus. which in fact they did to as they called to Pontius Pilot to kill him.b/ because of the Jewish Diaspora Jews spread throughout the world and because they had

different religion and different customs were feared by the locals.

As for their banking and money trading the Jews were forced into this by Medieval Lords. In the Bible it says that it is a sin to collect interest on money that you have loaned. The nobility figured they would get around this by having Jews act as their 'front men'. they would lend the money collect the interest and remit it to the nobility. Somehow they thought that God wouldn't discover their trick so they wouldn't be punished. This is how Jews became known as moneylenders.To the person who claims the New Testaments calls Jews ignorant and other nasty names I would appreciate you quoting chapter and verse as I do not ever recall reading that myself. Christians do not patronize Jews because they know that they are God's chosen people. They also know that they will be judged differently than Christians on Judgement day. That is they will be judged on their adherence to the Law and

the Torah and not on whether they believed in Jesus.  

Answer 6

The Holocaust Jewish people were tortured and killed.  Kids and parents were separated from each other forced to be torn apart.  So many innocent lives lost because of this massacre.  It should have never happened and for those who do not believe it happened you need a serious reality check. Read  the book Night by Elie Wiesel and The Diary of Anne Frank.  My opinion people who discriminate and kill other people deserve to rot in h**l.  No one has the right to play God except God himself.  

Answer 7

The holocaust, for absolutely no reason whatsoever..people just hate us

Answer 8

Erm one word: Holocaust!

Answer 9

Probably started with the romans picking on jesus and calling him king of the jews.

Its got worse thanks to the n***s, but im not really sure why?

Answer 10

Its just the stupid people who think they killed Jesus, but what those idiots don't know is that Jesus was in fact Jewish!

Answer 11

I don't know, humans all come from dirt, water and sunlight. I have no Idea why anyone is discriminated against.  

Answer 12

Since nobody's answering the second part...I think part of the reason Jewish people have been discriminated against is that they haven't had a home country in how many thousand years? There is always some fear and hatred towards foreigners in your country, especially in times of great patriotism (like n**i Germany). Since the Jews have wandered all over the world, into other countries, the places where they reside generally blame them for stuff that's "going wrong" in that particular country.

I think this is only one piece to a VERY complex answer though.

Answer 13

Big question :)

There are several underlying reasons for the hatred of Jews. I'll briefly touch on a few and then direct you to some great websites for more detail.

The first reason is, much as I hate to say it, the way that Jews are portrayed in Christianity. The early Church charged the Jews with 'deicide' - in other words, 'killing god', because of the death of Jesus.

Since then, successive Popes have apologised and withdrawn the unfair charge. It was the Romans who crucified Jesus and the Jews were not involved. But if you read the 'new testament' you will find that Jews are described as 'ignorant' and various other nasty attributes are attached to them.

Theologically, Christianity has traditionally taught that Judaism is 'irrelevant' and that it does not 'apply' any longer, and that it should have been 'replaced' by Christianity. This Replacement Theology is NOT believed by all Christians BUT enough do believe it to cause a most patronising attitude towards Jews. Throughout history, Jews have been persecuted because they 'killed Jesus' and because they 'rejected Jesus'. Neither is fair nor true.

The early Church demonised Jews; indeed, in the Christian bible, there are references to the 'synagogue of Satan' and Jews are called a 'generation of vipers'. Hardly language that's going to make Christians like Jews now, is it?!

There are of course other reasons for anti semitism, and I recommend a great article on it here: http://www.simpletoremember.com

Go the section with articles and click on 'Why people hate the Jews'.

Other good resources:

http://www.ajewwithaview.com

http://www.askmoses.com

In terms of the discrimination and persecution, go to http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/

Hope that helps :)

Answer 14

Well, one of the biggest ones was the Holocaust. They didn't do anything wrong, Hitler just blamed the Jews for everyones problems.

Answer 15

WHY????

Because we are different, why were african americans, and asians discriminated against??

The holacaust killed 11 million, not only jews, homosexuals, disabled, gypsies, and soviets.

There are only approxamately 13 million jewish people in the world today

I remember 4 years ago when i was in seventh grade we were learning about the holocaust and my friend brought the rabbi from his temple to talk to our class about the holacaust, yu should have seen the number of people dosing off as this man explained how he watched his younger brother and mom be stripped naked and sent to the gas chamber

At lunch that day these three boys ran around school with the swastika painted on there chests flashing everyone in the school, when they ran past me and flashed me, i cussed them out because it pissed me off, it anggered me that they had no idea that hat signthey just flashed was one of the basis of the jewish genocide

everyone should now about the holocaust, everyone should read the diary of anne frank

everyone should now about our traditions

such as yom kippur, hanukkah, rosh hashanah, passover

we all know about christmas, and easter

so how come when people come to my house around christmas and see our menorah they ask What is that???

Everyone has there own beliefs

Judiasm is mine

And yes JESUS WAS A JEW

Answer 16

uh, yes. Is there anyone who has said otherwise? I mean, look from ancient times (old testament) to modern (holocaust) the Jews have been forced to endure a lot.

Why? because, I think that people are afraid of others different then themselves. Its really not good. Also, maybe because the believe in a messiah who will come and be a king, etc.

Answer 17

Jews were one of the first minority groups and they were often merchants and bankers and lots of people owed them money so they got pissed off and decided to dehumanize them and seize their property and assets instead of paying off their debts and getting on with their own affairs. therefore they were mistrusted and discriminated against.

Answer 18

for along time jews were discriminate before the holocaust.over hundreds of years ago jews in europe have been discriminated mainly because during that time people in europe believe that jesus is the answer and jews during that time they follow something else.so they kill them for that.thousands of years before they were discriminated because they believe in one god.polytheism was everywhere.another reason why jews were killed is because of wealth.they were rich.its faith and jealousy of wealth that made people kill them.my opinion about it is its just plain ridiculous.

Answer 19

they were always a smaller weaker population being bullied by larger more powerful groups of people until now. they rule the world now