re: Someone please explain the historical hatred of Jews...

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So I always took this as they are smart and get into controlling these things. Seems like most are lawyers as well.

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Well Islam and the Catholic church both considered lending and collecting interest as usury whereas Jewish culture sees it as perfectly fine (and most would agree today that it is). That's a big issue that the first post nailed. The Jewish people have also always fought for their land in a very contested environment that led to a lot of historical butting of heads between cultures and religions.

The newest thing to hate the Jews for is the belief that they control the financial institutions and media (going back to Germany in WWI, but probably before that as well).

That and the belief that Jews will subvert the nation they are in to benefit themselves or the holy land also heavily ties into it.

I'm sure that like every case there are and have been situations where all of these have been true but to say the entire Jewish people are like that would be wrong.