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Long before October 7, 2023, an easy answer was that Jew-hatred was a Christian religious hatred of Jews. Plainly and simply, the Jews killed Jesus and hence, they were hated.
Much of the history of the Jewish people can be found in the Old Testament, in which we learn that the Jews are the 'chosen people'. By making a covenant with God, they would, in return for being chosen, obey his laws.
Amid a dramatic increase in attacks on Jewish people and institutions, a historian traces the cultural and political forces at work. By Isaac Chotiner November 7, 2023
Anti‑Semitism, sometimes called history’s oldest hatred, is hostility or prejudice against Jewish people. The Nazi Holocaust is history’s most extreme example of anti‑Semitism.
Here's why It's not just high-profile figures who have spouted anti-Semitic language recently. Attacks and harassment against Jewish people have been on the rise, according to researchers.
Why is it that even post-Holocaust, Jews experience a large percentage of the world’s hate crimes, despite being less than 0.2% of the world’s population? That’s because the Holocaust wasn’t an antisemitic exception — it was the culmination of years of religious, scientific, cultural and political anti-Jewish sentiment.
They exploited the general population's readiness to scapegoat Jews by enacting laws that targeted the freedoms of the Jewish people. Sometimes called the longest hatred, antisemitism has persisted for thousands of years.
