What Most Jews *Think* Causes Jew-Hate

What causes Jew-hate?

Ask someone that question, and they will most likely give you one of five answers – none of which stand up to rational scrutiny. Let’s go through them one by one.

Answer #1: Unfair Generalization

That one time Great-Great Grandpa got ripped off by someone with a large nose, when he bought that pair of trousers on 5^th Avenue back in the Roaring 20’s, and then blamed it on ALL the Jews.

Critique:

Ok, but why does this only seem to happen with Jews? Why didn’t grandpa do that with Swedish people after that one time the Swedish guy ripped him off? Or with French people after that one time a Frenchman cheated him?

It doesn’t make sense.

Answer #2: Jealousy.

Jews are smarter, more successful, more moral, and just overall better than Gentiles, and so Gentiles are jealous, and from jealousy comes hate.

Critique:

But in order to use this explanation, you have to believe that Jews are superior to others – which raises all sorts of problems I’m sure I don’t need to explain. Are Jews a superior race, above the others?

Do you agree with this rabbi?

If the answer is no (and it should be no, because we don’t do the whole “superior race” thing anymore, right guys?), then why would people who aren’t Jewish be jealous of people who are? What exactly would they be jealous of?

It doesn’t make sense.

Answer #3: Scapegoating

People need to blame their existing problems on someone – they have to hate someone or something – so they choose Jews because Jews have small numbers and sometimes dress funny, and are therefore easy targets for bullying, blaming, and scapegoating.

Critique:

Plenty of groups have small numbers, and plenty of groups dress funny. And yet do they have a 2500-year history of continual persecution? Pick any small, funny-dressing minority, and ask yourself: Do they get as much hatred and pogroms and national expulsions and scathing descriptions by historians, ancient and modern, as the Jews get?

If Jews have suffered hatred by multiple orders of magnitude more than other funny-dressing groups, then what explains the disparity?

It doesn’t make sense.

Answer #4: Tradition

Hatred is passed down from generation to generation, for no reason at all, simply by word of mouth. Mom and Dad say, “hate this group”, and so the children hate.

Critique:

But who originally started the hate, and why?

It doesn’t make sense.

And now, the final explanation – the one into which all other explanations funnel:

Answer #5: Divinely Programmed Genetic Hatred Disposition

Jews are God’s Chosen People™, imbued with special souls, from a higher level of Heaven, with a special divinely ordained purpose to bring about the next stage in the evolution of humankind, and goyim are jealous of that. And since they didn’t get “chosen” for this mission, their souls have a spiritual quarrel with Jewish souls, and are automatically predisposed to hate Jews.

Hatred is passed down through DNA, because certain “tribes” or “nations” or “peoples” are genetically preprogrammed to hate Jews.

These tribes and nations were founded by Biblical characters who were the “non-chosen” brother in a sibling rivalry, who was dispossessed of his inheritance by his Jewish (and therefore “chosen”) brother, and therefore passed down his hatred and resentment to his descendants, literally through their blood, all the way down to the present day.

The main rivalries are:

(A) Isaac vs. Ishmael (the source of the Jewish-Arab rivalry),

(B) Jacob vs. Esau (the source of the Jewish-European rivalry).

The ultimately Non-Jewish brother in the duo (i.e. Ishmael and Esau) developed deep resentments toward their respective Jewish brother (Isaac and Jacob), and so now their descendants carry intrinsic hatred in their blood, passed down from generation to generation, ready to flare up as soon as the presence of Jacob’s DNA – i.e. Jewish blood – is detected in the vicinity.

The Jewish DNA is like an antenna, and the Ishmael/Esau DNA detects it, and activates the hate.

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Critique:

Come on guys. This is retarded.

But, strangely enough, it’s the one explanation into which all rabbinical attempts at explaining Jew-hate ultimately converge. Ask a rabbi, and then debunk the other 4 reasons, and you’ll eventually wind up at this one.

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Now… I have a question:

What did you notice about all 5 explanations?

I’ll give you a moment to think.

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All 5 place the blame on other people – on everybody but us Jews.

All 5 absolve us of all responsibility for our conflicts.

Isn’t that convenient?

It’s always them. It’s never us. Not even a little bit.

No, I’m not a self-hating Jew, and nothing I’ve said is antisemitic. I’m inviting you to introspect. It’s a vital skill that everyone is supposed to have.

Everyone is supposed to ponder the possibility that their conflicts are their own fault. And Jewish people are simply not exempt from this duty.

And if we learn how to do it, we can change the behavior that’s been causing people to hate us, and thereby resolve our conflicts – and live in safety and security, getting along peacefully with our neighbors.

That’s how to be a Good Jew.