Sotos wrote:The attempted genocide against the Jews by the Nazis is undeniable. I think the question is WHY there was so much hate against the Jews? Pure racism... or did the Jews act in a way that made others hate them? Because it was not just the Nazis... many others hate the Jews. Is it just because of historical reasons... what happened with Jesus 2000 years ago?
Is it maybe envy because the Jews stick together and often manage to get rich? Or maybe just because they are a different religion?
If you look at the History of the Jews they have been the victims of targetted persecution as a religious/ethnic group in many places in Europe for much of the past 1600 years. It was not just the Hellenes that suffered persecution at the hands of Christians but starting under Constantine 1 there were a number of restrictions placed on Jews, resulting in segregation.
Then there was the collective blame for killing Jesus - first vocalised in 167 and then expanded to blame all Jews for all time. Then there were the blood libels, dating from First or second century AD that Jews sacrificed Greeks and/or Christian Children. That is in fact contrary to Judaic teaching , according to both Christian and Judaic versions of the old testament since the alleged time of Abraham, often used an excuse for slaughter by Christians, but how perverse, that so-called Christians do to the Jews, ie Kill them, what the falsely blame the Jews for doing.
The blood libels really got going in later medieval times in England from 1141 and France 1171, but this appears to be a part of growing anti semitism with pogroms and massacres in particular from the late 11th Century, including major events in the Rhinelands in 1096 and in France.
They were blamed for spreading the black death - another excuse to murder Jews. They were expelled from many countries, mostly simply because they were Jews
Restrictions on Jews owning land or property and engaging in some trades basically forced them into money-lending and later banking - these were forbidden to Christians - and the picture we have of Jews is probably largely attributable to how Europeans treated the Jews, in particular from about 900 years ago, attitudes which resulted in Holocaust , which attitudes Kuruptos and GR perpetuate even today.