Why,throughout history are the jewish people persecuted?

Question

Why,throughout history are the jewish people persecuted?

Answer 1

Jealousy:

Came into any country and in a relatively short time, became very wealthy

Scapegoats:

For the death of Jesus, for the cause of the Black Death, and for missing children (Blood Libels)

Nonconformists:

Kept their dress and customs no matter where they went. Didn't intermarry and so on..

*EDIT*

You can figure out from the posts here who would have been persecuting us if they lived during a time when it was more accepted than it is today.

The question was "why,throughout history are the jewish people persecuted?"

Yet many of the answers here refer only to the past 60 years and for some reason bring in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict where that was clearly not the question asked.

Those sort of answers really help prove my above three points and how when the question had nothing to do with the past 60 years, so many people are so ready to blame the Jews and the Israelis for whatever they can.

Congratulations, you're obviously an anti-Semite. (Ya'll know who you are) But I have just one thing to say to you people: Suck it. We're here to say.

Answer 2

http://www.simpletoremember.com/audio/in...

why do people hate the jews, by rabbi ken spiro. for jews mainly.

the jews are the chosen nation, but the christians and the muslims decided they were chosen afterwards, and they wanted to convert the jews, but the jews didn't convert so they started prosecuting them. they were to different from the gentiles. this was in the old world.

in germany and the enlightened world, the people didn't like the jews to become too much like the germans, so that's why they prosecuted them.

and "one": it is the philistines that lived in canaan, they are long gone. palestinians are muslims who lived in palestine, a long long time after that. there is no connection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistia

Answer 3

Jealousy - they tend to be bright and have money

Historical blame for the death of Jesus Christ

They didn't used to have a homeland so were "outsiders" everywhere.

Convienient scapegoats for society's problems.

Answer 4

It's a question difficult to answer quickly, but I'll try to make it as brief as I can.  The Jews were chosen of God historically to be his own special people.  This was to contrast with those nations around them who went after strange gods, worshipping creatures or gods of wood and brass and stone, instead of the living God who had created all men.  God meant for the Jewish people to be a light, a beacon, to draw all nations to himself.  

A lot of history comes in here next, but to chasten Israel for it's own waywardness from God, God scattered them among the nations.  

His plan was always and is to redeem them back to their land and to himself.  It is true some peoples have used that they were "Christ-killers" as an excuse to persecute them.  The thing is, it is the sin of all mankind through all history that put man on the cross, or in the first place, the sin of Adam alone.  

But back to the Jews.  If you do not believe the Bible you will not believe this answer, but it is the true one.  Because God loves the Jews, Satan hates them, and working through men, has tried to destroy them throughout history.

If that seems odd, consider this--there is no other people who have been scattered in the past as Israel was and yet have survived as a people for so long.  That fact needs to be examined and understood.

Maggie

Answer 5

Go ahead and "Violate" me now - but I am absolutely amazed at the anti-semitic venom displayed in the "answers" to this question. Only a few have provided reasonable answers - the rest is vile hatred for all the reasons they've heard for thousands of years.

I find this extraordinarily frightening.

I'm not even Jewish.

Answer 6

they crucified christ.

Answer 7

The Christians tend to call them christ killers.

They consider themselves above all other races as god's Chosen people.

This tends to upset the races that weren't chosen

Answer 8

Because they are clever, organised and help each other.  

Answer 9

they were and are persecuted because of their religion, also because they do not inter marry, therefore they have their own culture and society, and they have always tended to be good business people.  all good for engendering prejudice, suspicion, and envy, which turns people against them.  unjustified of course.

Answer 10

Christians blame the Jews for the death of Jesus Christ.  With the rise of Christianity across the globe there was a rise in anti-semitism which has lasted throughout history.

Answer 11

its not the jewish in particular its the israelis they rule the world and shove the holocaust down eveyone's throat - there is more to history than boring WW2

Answer 12

This is how my teacher in Philosophy explained the beginnings of it:

(Don't remember everything but here is the gist...)

A long, long time ago...

The land that Israel occupies is originally to the Palestinians. The Israelites are nomads. Then, as said in the Bible, God led them to a land where they can live permanently. And it appears that it is where the Palestinians are. So goes, the never ending fight of who belongs where.

Israelites: "This is where God sent us"

Palestinians: "We came here first"

And yeah, Jewish soldiers crucified Jesus Christ. But I think, that was just a matter of circumstance, it could have been anyone else in power that ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.

Note:I stand corrected on what I have said. I hope I didn't offend anyone.

Answer 13

Firstly they were a nation without a state and therefore considered as wandering tramps,then they were the slaves of the Egyptians and eventually thrown out,then they nailed up a potential saviour,then they cornered the markets on money and were vilified for that,and of course Hitler combined everything and gassed as many as he could,

Answer 14

they're getting there own back in palestine.

Answer 15

It is the reverse of the principle "conform and be happy", if you either choose to stand out, or naturally stand out you are going to get persecuted.

This applies whether you are the little guy at school, the Armenian Christians or whatever.

There is even a hierarchy by which Jews persecute other Jews.  East European Jews look down on Western Jews and black and brown Jews get a hard time of it.  Religious Jews disdain less religious Jews, until you reach the merely Jewish, this disdain of course works both ways.