why do people make fun of jews?
154218
i know that there is the orthodox an the conservative jews. i dont know the difference, but 2 me jews r cool. but my friends seem 2 think that jews r soft. i guess its da way they dress.
599897
just because some jews may have done that doesnt mean their all bad. its like saying all arabs are bad cus of 9/11
1168654
Good question. People seem to be so sensitive & serious. No one seems to know how to laugh anymore...at anything. Some people have no sense of humor. It is "politically incorrect" to "make fun" of others in the form of a joke. We all need to learn to laugh more often...at other things but most of all at ourselves. We all need to lighten up.
756561
Jews are hated for the actions of few bad Jews: read what this bad jew said:\n "Our race is the master race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considred as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet, and serve us as our slaves." \nMenachem Begin\n\nprime Minstar of Israel
322979
Some of us are, and some of us aren't.  Jews traditionally place a great emphasis on education.  Those groups in society who don't often feel threatened and then claim Jews have an unfair advantage.  Perhaps instead of whining, people would study harder and earn their own money and learn what it takes to make it in the world instead of always blaming others.
507640
The answer is partly religious and partly economic.\n\nThe Jews are historically one of the tribes of Israel and the popular belief amongst Christians is that it was the Jews who decided that Jesus (who was himself a Jew) should be put to death by crucifixion. This lead to centuries of dislike of jews by European christians.\n\nAlso from biblical times onwards Jews became prolific traders and merchants throughout Europe and the new worlds, displaying a talent for business, but a reputation for being mean and penny pinching. This is a consequence of any immigrant population becoming succesful in front of the indigineous people. It breeds jealousy.\n\nTherefore as the years rolled on, and jews became more distributed around the world, but simultaenously very succesful in business and politics resentment also built up and they became figures of hate and ridicule in most european countries.\n\nClearly that came very much to a head follwoing the German surrender in the first world war, where many Germans believed that they had been betrayed by Jewish German industrialists, when the German Army hadnt actually been defeated.\n\nThis led to the rise of the Nazi's and the systematic murder of 6 million german jews. Not as often reported but just as horrific was a similar campaign against Jews in Communist Russia. \n\nAfter WW2 the world community decided to give the Jews a homeland, back where they originally came from in a British adminstered area of North Africa called Palestine.\n\nSome of the other Arab tribes, who have now defined themselves as Palestinians took exception to this and have waged a 40 year war against the jews (Israelis). They have been helped in this by just about every other Arab country, but the Israelis have prevailed.\n\nThe sad thing is that Jews and Arabs both have a right to occupy that land as hiostorically thats where they both originated from.
887373
That's a good question!  It may be because white people are trying to make up for our ancestors' mistakes and cruelties by standing by when our own race is ridiculed.  I think that reasoning is stupid, but oh well.\n\nI'm personally not offended when black comedians tell jokes about white people.  I know we do some pretty weird things, but it's not so obvious to us.  So when they point it out, I can laugh and say, "Yeah, I do that.", have a good chuckle out of it and feel flattered that they thought enough of my race to make a joke out of it.  I firmly believe that an inability to laugh at oneself shows intense insecurity.\n\nOf course, another reason why it may be acceptable for blacks to joke about whites but not the other way around is because white people are in the political majority at this time.  Most of the people in power are white Christian men.  Whenever someone is considered the majority, it's okay for other groups to joke about them.  Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but there it is.
791205
I hear a lot of people bashing the Jewish people, mostly out of jealousy, they see how, as a whole, blessed and prosperous the Jewish people are- I see that there is a higher intelligence and higher rate of success amongst the Jewish people-  I truly believe this is because the Jewish people as a whole take God's instructions seriously, they do not take for granted the covenant that God made with Abraham.  God created the world with certain laws and principles in motion and obedience to God's word brings blessing and I believe that this is what has happened amongst the Jewish people.   For the rest of the world, I believe that God made a way for us to be grafted in- this is described in the Bible but basically, having a respect for the Jewish people, seeing that the ways they are set apart as a Holy people are for a reason and recognizing the picture of the Messiah in those ways rather than looking down on them, opens the door for the same blessing for the gentiles as well.
650610
I totally agree with you.\n\n People seem to think it's great fun to call others names and hurl insults just because they are not the same colour, race or sexual orientation as themselves.\n\nThese people are young and ignorant. When they mature, they will realise how stupid they have been.
1102327
Hmm, I wonder... Do 99% of the Jews think of YOU AND YOUR RACE the same way?\n\nOr, are you simply an IGNORANT fellow? Or, are you full of ENVY?? Which is it???\n\nPeace be with you!
251805
I don't know the real scientific answer, but I think people hate any people that survive any persecution.  They think it's sneaky, but if you want to survive, you work hard to do so!  People make Jewish people the scapegoat for all their problems.  Many Christians enjoy blaming Jews for the death of Christ, but Christ was a Jew himself - so it's quite illogical.  \n\nThey've survived the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and many years of being thrown out of various countries to this day for the simple reason that they are usually a small population and a minority religion within the region.  They keep their spirit and religion in their daily life.  They stick to their values from generation to generation.  I admire their continuity.
1058685
Most comments that are made is made as an insult. If people could ask a serious question and not one based in hate there would be no problem.\n\nI try to educate not start more problems. But when some people say things that are wrong it might come off as if I am rude. \n\nBut if you think about it if you make fun of Jesus (pbah) or a Christian than Christians no longer have a since of humor and people think that we want to fight.\n\nIn general we are very peaceful
835685
Traditionally people have hated jews for a variety of reasons:\n\n1. They were without a "homeland" so jewish people lived in other countries.  They were pockets of this very ethnic group (with VERY different religion, practices and appearance) in the middle of another country.  These kinds of "very different" people are always hated by the majority group.\n\n2.  They "killed Christ" so were persecuted.  (Nevermind the logic that Christ himself would have been jewish by default)\n\n3. As an ethnic group they were often better educated than the "majority ethic group" of the country they were living in and they did well by material posessions.  They often engaged in banking (before there were proper banks) and were the "money lender" for the town.  Some would say "loan shark."  And people who borrow money from that person , hate that person.
213290
I am Greek and i believe that there are small number of people who hate Jews. And they hate them because they aren't well educated. Many people hate the government of Israel but this is something differed. They hate any militaristic government including US or UK or Italian they hate war and thats all.
1020357
Because it was proven that the cartoons. that were printed by the Newspaper were not the cartoons. that were shown to the islamic imans in Iran. And further more no person seems to be able to say anything bad or derogatory. about the Muslim Religion.\nBut for any other religion its ok for people to make fun of them.
747406
They are downright weird. The number of Jews who would actually agree with the JTF on everything could probably be counted on one hand. The JTF calls some people "race tratiors" they sound more like neo-nazis! If it were not for the fact that I know these guys are Jewish I would suspect it was someone's idea of a joke.
505945
Of course, when items are misquoted, misunderstood, taken out of context or invented, anything goes.\n\nWhy don't you admit that you're nothing but an anti-semite, low-life NAZI lover.  These so-called quotes are very popular on neo-nazi websites, like the ignoramouses who post them would have any knowledge of what is actually written in the Talmud.