Jewish People...?

Problem is with holy racism (zionism) be it christians or jews

Jews aren't a race of people in the same way that the Chinese are a race and bear racial characteristics; they come from all over because they are a religious group not just a Nation.

The Jews from places like Spain and Portugal have the characteristics of the other people who live there, like darker hair and browner skins. Jews from Russia (including Lativa and Lithuania) can be red headed or blondes and have blue eyes. I had a Jewish friend who was Indian and looked like an ordinary, everyday Indian; you can have Japanese people who are Jews - they don't 'rook' "Jewish" either!

So, that's shot that one down!!

In just the same way, Jews are just ordinary everyday people who believe in the same God as Christians, except that He is one indivisible God not 3 aspects of the same God (Father, Son and Holy Ghost). Home and Family life is very important to them and so is a good education and a good job.

There are good Jews and there are some I wouldn't pass the time of day with, just like everywhere else.

I think they are just a handy bunch of guys who make good scapegoats because people have to blame someone when things go wrong.

Edit for Cleopatra - who told you that you couldn't go into a Synagogue/Temple? I'm not an "anything" and I've been into many Synagogues - the first time when I was in school (very high C of E) and we were taken to several places of alternative worship, to learn about different religons.

Edit for Baby Blue Eyes - most of the Jews I've met complain about being the "chosen people" and say they wish their God would choose somebody else sometimes! Especially when things are tough and the gas ovens are working overtime.

It's all about Christian insecurity.

The very fact of the continued existence of Jews was a continuous thumb in the eye to Christian doctrines that Judaism was supplanted by Christianity. The Church needed the Jews to convert or wither away to make Christianity make sense.

Also, the steadfast Jewish faith in God's promises was a standing affront to certain Christian doctrines. According to Christianity, God wanted to unilaterally renegotiate His contract with the Jews; if the Jews did not want to renegotiate, what does that say about God? Unless the Church wanted to admit that its doctrines logically implied that God breaks his promises and goes back on his word, it was hard to reconcile these facts.

And worst of all, the refusal to convert was an ever-present reminder that the Church was not all-powerful, and that a small, educated people, with trust in God, could stand against it. That message would be disastrous for the Church.

Recently, some Christian doctrines have changed, alleviating some of this tension.

Jews have never had many issues with other groups -- they have lived everywhere in the world for millenia without being particularly singled out for harrassment, except in the Christian world. It is true that in just the last couple of hundred years, the Muslim world has become much less hospitable to Jews - -but then again, the Muslim world has become much less hospitable to everyone.

Unfortunately our society needs scapegoats and the Jews have been that for centuries. Many years ago, I was in the middle of reading "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and a boss I worked for told me that "you don't have to read that, all you have to know is that everyone hates Jews".

I told him, "you're right, I only have 1/2 a friend as I'm 1/2 Jewish, and I guess I only have half the wealth and half the power". Jews are no better or worse than anyone else. There are good and bad people in ALL races. Only when people stop "labeling" will we ever be able to become a more "enlightened" humanity than we are now.

it's a great question. i don't get it, either.

throughout history non jews (mainly christians)have seen jews as having traditions so different as to be threatening to the christian social order. the absolute worst manifestation of this was the holocaust in world war 2 europe.

it is fair to say that jews have excelled in many areas disproportionate to their numbers, but doesn't it benefit society as a whole when *anyone* does well? if those societies had taken a "live and let live" attitude instead, it would never have been an issue. having a "problem" with jews or any group is a self-fulfilling proposition.

this is why we should learn from the past when we talk about our current "illegal" immigration problems.

Well, Christians don't like them because they attribute Christ's death as occuring at the hands of Jews. And throughout history that has led them to be criticized and condemned. For a long time, they were not allowed to hold professional trades and had to make a living from money lending, which was seen as a 'low' career. Money-lending at interest was not allowed in the Christian faith.

Then they became exceedingly rich and earned a reputation as being greedy. This historical image has become ingrained.

Of course, they are people and there's good examples and bad examples of their race, just like with all other races.

"The fact that the Jews are monotheistic is no longer a real issue these days. Contemporary anti-Semitism by and large comes from Christians and Muslims, who consider themselves monotheists. The Jew-hatred these days stems from different sources than in antiquity.

"There is, however, another parallel with antiquity. The otherness of the Jews played a large role in their image among Greek and Roman circles. That also is the case in our own times. Anti-Semites perceive the Jews as being different, and this leads them to see them as dangerous. This imagined danger leads to hatred of the Jews.

"One horrifying aspect of the history of Jew-hatred, namely, the twenty-three centuries of anti-Semitism that we know of, is the tenacity of so many motifs such as that Jews are dangerous and enemies of humankind. These ideas are and always have been demonstrably false. They are, however, much alive up to the present day. It is apparently impossible to break through these perceptions.

"The image of the Jew as an enemy is grotesque and easily exposed as pure nonsense. Still these images are kept alive among many millions of people all over the world. That this is possible is one of the most frightening aspects of the history of Jew-hatred."

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

by Prof. Pieter van der Horst

Published October 2007

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DR...

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Here is an excerpt from a link I shall give you that has one of the most common sense reasons that I have come to understand for much of it. The New Testament ( replacement theology) and then later the Quran ( additional replacement theology) have the greatest burdens to bear in this regard.

"An increasing number of Christian scholars have concluded that the root of anti-Semitism in the Christian world community is ultimately found within the New Testament. In his book, Elder and Younger Brothers, the late Prof. A. Roy Eckardt [former Professor of Religion at both Lehigh University (PA) and Oxford University (UK), and an ordained minister], asserted that the foundation of anti-Semitism, and the responsibility for the Holocaust lie ultimately in the New Testament. In another book, Your People, My People, Eckardt insisted that Christian repentance must include a reexamination of basic theological attitudes toward Jewry and the New Testament in order to deal effectively with the problem of anti-Semitism and its prevention. The general message scholars such as Eckardt are trying to convey is that, using the New Testament as its authoritative source, "The Church" has stereotyped the Jewish people as an icon of unredeemed humanity; they became an image of a blind, stubborn, carnal, and perverse people. This dehumanization is the vehicle that formed the psychological prerequisite to the atrocities that followed."

this excerpt from http://www.messiahtruth.com/anti.html

article titled "The Anti-Jewish New Testament"

and it lists many hundreds of defamatory passages in the New Testament

I was raised to hate Jews and Blacks. recently I was touched by God and have realized, my instincts, my gut feeling and my beliefs from my heart match the Jewish laws and the first 5 books of the bible. I was one of those people who hated something I did not know the truth too. Most people fear what they dont know or tend to hate what they were misinformed about. Most of our population has been taught Jews were bad but in truth, they are very close to god and just trying to do what god commanded.

That's such a good question!!!!!! We don't try to convert people or anything obnoxious like that, but for centuries the Jewish people have been the Scapegoats of the world. I don't get it either, but it's sure nice to see a non Jew who doesn't get it!!!!!!!!

Fabulous article Inat, thank you!!!!!!!!

I haven't met any Jewish before, although there r much of them in my country, Egypt, they r fewer than Christians here. I only met one on chat few years ago. I love them very much. I read much about them . I know not few things about them . I hope i can enter any Jewish temple here , but iam forbidden coz am Christian.

They r hated because of two reasons, one is that it is written in the Quraan to hate the Jews. Second is that they have problems with Muslims about Palestine. Its a war , so there must b blood , so Muslims hate them and making Christians hate them too.

Good Luck!