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Originally Posted by Rochard
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And why is that? I'm not being dumb or racist; Why is it that a large percentage of the world's population dislike such a tiny race...
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three main reasons, I think:
1. Supposedly we killed Jesus (Even though it was actually the Roman/Italians, but Emperor Constantine made sure that the story was as skewed towards the Jews as possible, since the Romans didn't want to look bad and the locals in Judea were a pain in his ass). For the next 1,000 years, the world dominance of Catholicism in particular and Christianity in general, led to a foundation of belief among most of the worlds cultures that Jews are "evil". If you say something for long enough with a loud enough voice, people will just start to believe that it's true, and eventually it just becomes part of the fabric of people's thinking.
The extent of this attempt by the Vatican in Rome to put ALL blame for the killing of Jesus on the Jews led to a whole host of things. If you are interested:
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"Persecution of the Jews
Jews were harshly persecuted, denied entrance into certain professions, prohibited from owning land, forced to pay extra taxes and excluded from the normal education system. They were gradually expelled from Europe: from England in 1290, from France in 1306 and from Spain and Portugal in 1492. They were also expelled from Hungary in 1376, from Sicily in the 15th century, from Bavaria in 1470, from Bohemia in 1542, and suffered pogroms in Russia in 1881, 1891, 1897 and 1903.
The Jews lived in constant threat of violence. They were persecuted in Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades. The Black Death of 1348 was blamed on them. Cannibalism was regarded with such horror that only werewolves, witches, vampires and Jews were deemed capable of it. Martin Luther was one of many zealous anti-Semites. According to a 16th century British medical historian the Russian cure for drunkenness consisted "in taking a piece of pork, putting it secretly into a jew's bed for 9 days and then giving it to the drunkard in pulverized form." They had a reputation for drinking less than the Catholics.
In the early 16th century, anti-Semitism was at its peak in Europe. In 1517 Jews in Venice were confined to neighborhoods around the cannon foundry, or ghetto . The word ghetto came from this move. In other places Jews were forced to wear special clothes or badges. Through it all the Jews kept their culture and communities alive in their synagogues and schools, with the help of their rabbis, and for the part steadfastly refused to assimilate. The German-Israeli scholar Gershom Scholem wrote: the Jews “have had a relationship with Europe only to the degree that Europe has acted upon us as a destructive stimulation.”
Persecution of the Jews in England and Spain
Jews in medieval Britain were treated as chattel of the British crown. According to English law synagogues had to be placed in the back of buildings. A large Jewish community lived around Guildford, a wool trading center.
Jews suffered from the same kind of persecution in England that they did elsewhere in Europe. In 1144, after a 12-year-old tanner's apprentice in Norwich was found tortured, raped and murdered, a group of townspeople accused Jews living in the town of committing ritual sacrifice and king's representative had to sent to rescue them. This and other incidents set of massacres of Jews across England that finally led to their expulsion in 1290 on the orders of the Catholic monarchs.
The Spanish Inquisition was used primarily as an instrument to control Coversos (Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism). The Inquisition was most out of control in the 1480s when it was used against conervsos. Torquemada ordered 2,000 Jews to be burned alive.
In The Spanish Inquisition, A Historical Revision Henry Kamen wrote, "There is no evidence that the converso as a group were secret Jews." It is known that anti-Semitism was very prevalent but it is not clear how much racism had to do with persecution or how many converso had returned to Judaism. Kamen blames part of the converso troubles on their unwillingness to assimilate and their calls for a separate "nation."
Expulsion of Jews from Spain and Italy
The victory of the Catholic monarchs over the Muslims in Spain set off a wave of religious intolerance that lead to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. In 1492, the same year Columbus discovered America, 150,000 Jews known as Sephardim were stripped of their possessions during the Spanish Inquisition and kicked out of the Spain.
In 1492, the Spanish inquisitor general Torquemada gave the Jews three months to convert to Christianity, leave the country, or face execution. Many Jews sought refuge in the Netherlands or the Islamic empires of the Moors, Arabs and Turks, where there was more religious toleration.
Some Jews lived on quietly as Catholics in Toledo and other Spanish cities. One Toledo resident told Journalist Louise E. Levathes, "I have a friend. He is Catholic and goes to mass every Sunday. But for some reason his grandfather and father told him not to eat pork, and every Friday night he lights a Sabbath candle."
The Jews were expelled from southern Italy, then known as the Kingdom of Naples, is the 16th century. Few returned even after the ban was lifted in the 18th century.
Book: Farwell Espaņa, The World of Sephardism Remembered by Howard M. Sachar (Alfred A. Knopf).
Ottoman Empire and Sephardic Jews
About 100,000 of the 150,000 Sephardic Jews kicked out of the Spain were welcomed to Istanbul by the Ottoman Sultan Bayazit II, who dispatched the Ottoman navy to rescue many Jews. "The exiled Sephardim," wrote journalist Melanie Menagh, "brought with them the glories of Spain's golden age and made major contributions to Turkish life. Many were physicians and they introduced modern European medical techniques to the court.”
By the the 16th century a large portion of the population of Istanbul was made up of Spanish-speaking Jews. The first printing press in the Ottoman empire was established by two Spanish-Jewish refugees. Sephardim circumspection was so highly regarded by the sultans that many Ottoman diplomats were Jews. The Sephardim language, Judeo-Spanish or Ladino , was thought to be especially melodic and lent itself to poetry and sacred and secular songs. Ancestors of the Sephardim still live in Istanbul and Ladino is still spoken in some neighborhoods.
Jews expelled from Hungary in 1376, from Sicily in the the 15th century, from Bavaria in 1470, from Bohemia in 1542, and from Russia in 1881, 1891, 1897 and 1903 also were provided with sanctuary by the Ottomans. During World War II, Turkey accepted some Jews who were fleeing Nazism.
Jews, Poverty and Money
Jews were poor people until the 20th century. In Europe, they lived predominantly is shtetls (ghettos). In Europe, moneylending and trading were about the only professions that were open to them. Although many own shops and leant money for a profit, and some were rich, one said villager, "many were poor and sold goods from baskets in the streets." In North Africa there we nomadic Bedouin peddlers who were unable to own land.
In Eastern Europe, they were best known as moneychangers. Russians and other Slavic people have traditionally believed that buying and selling goods to make a profit or charging interest on loans was "cheating one's neighbor." This belief arises in part from the tsarist institution of mir , the periodic redistribution of land in accordance with family size. Russian ant-Semitism stems partly from the fact that Jews were the only ones low to lend money and trade goods.
Jews in Eastern Europe
By the 16th century, most of the world’s Jews were concentrated in Poland, then the largest kingdom in Europe and one that included what is now Lithuania, Belarus and western Ukraine.
This period of Jewish tolerance and enlightenment came to an end during the Counter-Reformation of the 16th century when Jews were so badly persecuted many of them converted to Catholicism. "
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2. After the Christians conquered Spain from the Muslims, and the Medieval Catholic church took control, Christians were not allowed to go into banking. However Banks and lenders were still needed since there was no other way for royalty to get loans, for things like wars, castles, etc.... Jews were pushed into that industry, and now they get blamed for it. (Ironic ain't it?)
3. Jews have tended to "take care of their own". This has lead to them building their own schools, and their own hospitals, temples, etc, etc, etc.... That tends to piss people off also.
These are only my personal theories.
:2 cents:.
