Why do some Jews consider non-Jews inferior?

Answer 1

Answer 1
Many people consider the "outsiders" inferior. Jews also have a history of fighting against discrimination as they have been terribly victimized throughout their history.

Answer 2
This is a misperception that comes out of the Jewish idea of "chosen-ness". Many non-Jews see it as Jews believing that they are superior to non-Jews as opposed to how Jews understand it. The Jewish understanding is that the Jewish people were charged with a distinct mission/task that the rest of the world was not assigned and this is to elevate the spiritual character of the world. This charge is very similar to that which monks and nuns take on in Catholicism and nobody chastises them for this act because we understand the hardship that comes out of that level of dedication. Jews are compelled to be so dedicated.

(Another more pop-culturally modern version of this is the idea of the "Fellowship of the Ring" in the "Lord of the Rings". The members of the Fellowship are in no way superior or better than the rest of the inhabitants of Middle Earth, they just have a specific task to which they have been assigned and upon which the entire world depends. People outside the Fellowship are more than capable of helping this mission which some (like King Theoden of Rohan and Faramir of Gondor) certainly do. It is just that the onus of responsibility lies on the Fellowship.)

Answer 2

This question is formed on a fundamentally incorrect and offensive supposition, namely that Jews regard non-Jews as something less than humans. Jews actually regard non-Jews as humans and there is no serious sect or organizational body in Judaism that would claim otherwise.

There are certainly sects of Judaism that tend to avoid non-Jews or are strongly disinterested in engaging with non-Jews in religious dialogue. There are also sects of Judaism which prize certain tracts of land with greater holiness than the non-Jews atop that land. In both cases, non-Jews are still regarded as human beings. (Regarding someone as a human does not mean that the "regarder" has to like that person or appreciate their views.) These groups typically feel that contact with non-Jews will lessen their spiritual holiness and as such, they wish to refrain from such things. (This is similar to monastic groups in Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism and no one would claim that a Christian monk, a Sufi, or a Buddhist monk does not respect non-their-religious people.)

Answer 3

Firstly, most Jews do not hate non-Jews. Hatred requires emotion, focused and persistent, and Jews are not interested in wasting their energies on such a dubious enterprise. This is especially true when Jews realize just how many wonderful non-Jews there are in the world. The Israeli Holocaust Memorial, Yad Vashem, even has a distinction recognized by most of the world's Jews for those non-Jews that showed the highest moral quality. (Imagine if Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, or Hindus did similarly.)

There are certainly individuals or movements that Jews generally hate, but those movements are typically those that wish to constrain the Jewish rights to freely move, freely pray, and freely self-govern. Over the course of history, Jews have encountered numerous such hateful individuals and groups which is why Jewish history has been full of sorrow, persecution, and death. Jews revile those who would think ill of them, which is much the same as any other ethnic or religious group would do and has done.