Hydrasaur t1_itox5ly wrote
Because we're different. For starters, In a polytheistic world, we believed in just one G-d. In a Christian and Muslim dominated world, we still believe in the scriptures they consider "outdated".
That just scrapes the surface, but overall it's our ability to survive and resist attempts to destroy us as a people. Instead, we were scattered throughout the middle east and Europe, always viewed with suspicion, and easily making a useful scapegoat. We were viewed at best as disloyal subjects, and more often as foreigners who pull the puppetstrings and control the events of history and governments. Antisemitism was one of the earliest and easiest forms of racism to engage in, it's become so deeply ingrained in most cultures that few recognize when it's right in front of rhem.
DrSmurfalicious t1_itoyjl2 wrote
>Because we're different.
You're no more different than anyone else.
> we believed in just one G-d.
But it's the same God as Muslims and Christians believe in?
And even in very secular and atheist countries Jews experience antisemitism. It's all just really weird to me.
Schnutzel t1_itozetw wrote
You're ignoring history. Antisemitism didn't just pop up in the 20th century, it had existed for hundreds of years. The reasons provided by /u/Hydrasaur explain how antisemitism came to be, not why it exists now. Now it exists because it has been perpetuated since the middle ages.
DrSmurfalicious t1_itp0cw5 wrote
Sure, but things change, or should change, over time. Many groups of people have been discriminated against in the past that aren't today.
Schnutzel t1_itp0en5 wrote
Of course. There's a lot less antisemitism now than there was 100 years ago. But it still exists.
Hydrasaur t1_itq0c4e wrote
Sure, that tends to be the case, but we've always been an outlier throughout history. Discrimination follows us wherever we go, and persists throughout millennia to this day, perhaps by virtue of the fact that it's existed for so long, and has been so systemically ingrained, and perhaps because of the diaspora forcing us to spread out. We've always been an easy target, especially with antisemitism taking the form of conspiracy theories, portraying us as attempting to undermine the established order.
Hydrasaur t1_itpzpac wrote
You're missing my point; that's how we're perceived by the rest of the world, not necessarily what we are.
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