Why do some people think Hassidic Jews in Jerusalem are racist?

Reported. It's one thing to be devisive, and another to be insulting.

They're not---it's media over-exposure. Whenever some tiny incident happens in Israel that involves them, it gets hyper-reported around the world. No one looks good when under the microscope 24/7 like that.

Case-in-point: the 'spit scandal' that happened earlier this year, when Haaretz, Israel's (sometimes self-hating) newspaper ran a section on Hassids spitting on Christian groups...completely ignoring that those Christians who seemed to make the time to go to Haaretz and complain could just as easily have called the police and ended the problem then and there. Of course, the Guardian read this, and thought that this was the most relevant and compelling event that has ever happened in the Middle East, and ran a couple articles on that. Before long, papers along the world were meticulously reporting the heck out of the tremendous 'problem' of Hassids spitting on Christians. Of course, Messi groups throught Israel, who have to maintian a steady list of Jewish 'grievances' against them to convince people that Jews just don't like them because Jews hate all Christians, suddenly realized that they were getting spit on, too. One might have thought that you couldn't go shopping at a mall in Israel, or sit at a bus stop, or go to one of the many churches in Israel without some crazy Hassid spitting on you. MAYBE one or two Hassids spit on a Christian leader, and it became a worldwide event.

Interestingly enough, none of the good things that Hassids do ever makes global news the way that does.

Peace

People like to generalize.

Like for instance some people say "Southerners are racist"

I am a southerner and most certainly not racist!!!

It is soo crappy to assume that an entire region of people are a certain way based on the actions of a small group of people. (And from what I understand,the Hassidic Jews make up a small percentage of the Israeli population.)

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Though I've left Mississippi many times, I've never made it to Israel so I have no reason to believe Hassidics are racist.

because of the actions of some of them..."racist" is an oft misapplied term. They are not a "race"... religious bigots would be a more appropriate label for a large segment of that group.... not all of them

Um, I'm sure some are. In pretty much every group some are racist and/or xenophobic. Or do you mean they think ALL of them are racist? That would be silly.

Lack of a brain.

They're likely not racists. I wouldn't worry about it.

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