Anti-Semitism

I'm going to guess due to the fact of our beliefs (I'm a Baptist). Jewish people have been on the ride of hate for a long time, especially by most Christians. So, I'm assuming because us Baptists' denominator for the Lord is Jesus, who the Jews see as a prophet (hence why they don't celebrate Christmas).

--Actually, what makes you think Baptists hate Jews? From my experiences, most Baptists believe Jews still retain favored status with God and show a knee-jerk support for Israel. I'd guess that Baptists support Israel at least as much as American Jews do, if not more.

If you think Baptists hate you because someone once said you need to accept Christ as Lord to go to Heaven, well...get over it. A Catholic would say you need to join the Catholic Church and be baptized, and an Eastern Orthodox would say the same thing for themselves. Buddhist vows assert that there is no salvation in anyone but the Buddha. Other religions claimed that you'd have to be reincarnated as a member of their religion before you could have a shot at permanent salvation. It's just what the person believes. If the person believed that eating blackberries will keep you from getting colon cancer, and told you to eat more blackberries, would you think he "hates you" just because you might not like blackberries? It's called freedom of speech. Deal with it.

That is an assumption that is not necessarily correct

antisemitic - anti-Jewish (in a racial sense)

Yes, and tragically some of it is consolidated and organized. a few years back a prominent Polish-American Bandleader was involved in a scandal involving anti-semitic literature distributeed at his gift shop, which normally sold records.

Generally NO.

Over the course of its pages, the New Testament takes a negative, reproving tone towards Jews, criticizing the Jews' adherence to tradition while ignoring the spirit of the law. This is a completely reasonable and acceptable criticism to make of an orthopraxis religion (a religion that values proper acts over proper beliefs), such as Judaism is. Additionally, considering that many Jewish religious leaders in Roman Judea were corrupt individuals, the criticisms of these people are meritorious. In fact, most of the latter part of the Old Testament is made up of these exact same critiques of behavior. Criticism of Jews following the letter of the law, but not its spirit and meaning are part of a long history of Jewish internal religious discourse.

However, there are occasional verses in the New Testament that cross the line from legitimate criticism of Jews' beliefs, Jews' actions, and corruption in the Jewish political/religious leadership into actual Anti-Semitism. Probably the most famous of these verses is Matthew 27:25, where Jews supposedly accept an eternal blood-guilt for the execution of Jesus Christ. This is a clear blood libel and the origin of many subsequent blood libels, all of which have been and continue to be manifestations of Anti-Semitism.

Eastern European countries and France.

For the reasons why people hate Jews and Israel, please see the Related Question below (so that they need not be repeated here).

As specifically concerns the United Nations, people that hate the Jews and Israel hate that the United Nations was responsible for granting Jews permission to declare the State of Israel.

There are numerous reasons why Jews are hated and to avoid replicating them, here, please see the Related Question on just that topic, linked to below.

As for "recognizing Jews". This is a very sensitive matter since Racial Anti-Semitism has often been predicated on Jews looking a certain way or walking in a certain fashion, etc. As a result, it becomes problematic. Also the phrasing of the question "spot a Jew" seems to indicate fear or loathing of them as opposed to "meet a Jew" or "find a Jew". There is nothing to fear or loathe a Jew for. As for being able to see them, religious Jews, especially the men, often wear religious paraphernalia such as kippot (skullcaps) and talitot (shawls with fringes). Some strains of Judaism also have payyot (sideburn curls). Religious Jewish women often dress more modestly than most Westerners, covering their arms, legs, and bosom. Non-religious Jews are indistinguishable from general Western Society.

They are called anti-Semites.

Historically, in Europe, Jews have been hated superficially because they supposedly 'killed Christ', but in reality because most people can't stand difference, and try to wipe it out where they see it.

There is a high degree of latent Anti-Semitism in Turkey and certainly open Anti-Zionism, even though the government of Turkey and Israel have had relations since 1949. Latent Anti-Semitism means that while Turkish Muslims will not usually go out of their way to vilify Jews or make their lives more difficult (there are certainly a small minority who do, though), they hold many seriously damaging stereotypes about Jews and see them less favorably than a fellow Muslim. A perfect corollary to this latent Anti-Semitism would be the way that Blacks are treated by White citizens in the United States. Most US Whites do not go out of their way to act "racistly" towards Blacks, but will hold stereotypes about Blacks that are damaging and see them less favorably than fellow Whites.

Anti-Semitism in Turkey is discussed in this Pew Global Survey from 2008, which says in relevant part: "Attitudes toward Jews have turned considerably more negative in Turkey in recent years. About half of Turks (49%) held an unfavorable view in 2004, while today roughly three-in-four (76%) express this sentiment. In the last two years alone, unfavorable views have risen from 65% to 76%. Turkish opinion on this issue is generally quite consistent across demographic groups. For example, 77% of those under age 50 have an unfavorable opinion of Jews, as do 75% of older Turks. Similarly, people with a college education (78%) are about as likely to express negative views as those who have not attended college (76%)."

Rifat Bali is really the only scholar who has investigated the unique forms of Turkish Anti-Semitism, its origins, and the means by which it is promulgated. I have provided a link to an article he wrote on the subject as well as a YouTube video lecture where he discusses the phenomenon.

Article: Rifat Bali - Present Day Anti-Semitism in Turkey

Yes; this should be self-evident. The Logic goes thus: Anti-Semites oppose any Jewish aspiration to freedom and/or power. Zionism promotes Self-Determination for the Jewish people which is an aspiration to freedom and power. Therefore, Anti-Semites oppose Zionism. Additionally, many people who are Anti-Semitic see Jews as running some sort of international cabal to strip power from everyone else. Equipped with a country, who knows what further havoc Jews could cause. The Arab World is prone to these types of conspiracy theories, making the Protocols of Zion and Mein Kampf bestsellers in the Arab World. There are many respectable Arabs who take these works seriously as historical discussions of Jews.

No. The first amendment gives people the freedom of speech, religion, and press, among other things. People are allowed to believe whatever they want, so hatred towards a person because of their religion is against the constitution.

Only some of the Muslims.The Proddies & Tims are too busy being anti-one another!

(in the US) The same federal laws that protect any other person against discrimination.

Yes, he used Jews as scapegoats in his presidential campaign through anti-Semitism. Although Hugo Chavez comes from a Jewish family, he claims that he no longer is, and is now a "Venezolano" aka, someone from Venezuela. He's trying to be like hitler by using anti-semitism tactics to win support.

Read the article below named "Hugo Chavez Anti-Semitism campaign".

The Jews are blamed for the death of Jesus because it was the Jewish religious leaders who manipulated Herod and Pilate into crucifying Jesus by charging Jesus with breaking certain Jewish laws making him worthy of death. The Romans would have rather released Jesus that day and crucified Barabbas. But the Jewish mobs at the behest of the Jewish leaders clamored for the release of Barabbas and the crucifixion of Jesus.

Yes. This is actually quite demonstrable.

Zionism as a philosophy did not even begin until the 1880s and Altneuland (Herzl's foundational book) was not published until 1902. However, we have Anti-Semitism in Ottoman Palestine prior to this. In 1517, when the Ottomans first invaded the region of Palestine, there were pogroms against the Jewish community there. In 1833, there was a war between the Ottomans and the Egyptian Khedivites over control of Ottoman Palestine. In the following year, Arabs in the cities of Safed and Hebron blamed the Jewish communities there for the outcome of that war (which was completely unjustified since Jews were banned from owning weapons or joining the military) and proceeded to massacre them. These massacres are known as the 1834 Safed Pogrom and the 1834 Hebron Massacre. In 1840, the murder of a Damascus Christian priest was falsely blamed on the Jews in the biggest blood libel since Jesus Christ. This resulted in violence against the Jewish community for nearly a year in uncoordinated outbursts. This is all aside from the fact that Jews were second-class citizens under the Muslims and had the requirement to identify themselves with yellow turbans, live only in certain areas, being barred from certain professions, etc.

From all indications, Adolf Hitler seems to have hated Jews. He blamed them for most of the misfortunes of the Nazis like losing in World War 1.

Shylock did not hate Jews. Shylock was a Jew.

Thousands of Anti-Semitic Laws have been introduced in hundreds of different countries. They did things as varied as give housing restrictions for Jews alone, to expulsion of Jews, to professional restrictions for Jews alone, to marriage restrictions, to forcible conversions, etc.

The holoucast wasn't about Hitler hating the Jews or Jehovahs Witness or homosexuals or anyone else. He blamed all of Germanys problems (losing World War One, bad economy, other countries hating Germany, low national pride) on groups of people that Germany would go along with hating. The Jews were the biggest target because the bible blames the Jews for turning Christ over to the Romans. They were also stereotyped as wealthy, money-hogging people. Becuase of the bad economy, many Germans were very, very poor, and Hitler blamed the Jews, saying they were taking and hoarding all the money, leaving Germans to die. The German population wanted to believe this. This was entirely untrue, but it started the discrimination against Jews. Hitler used this hatred to gain power, IE saying 'Vote for me, I'll take care off the Jews'. Once he WAS in power, and the Nazi political party had complete majority, he passed all sorts of laws making himself dictator. It all went downhill from there. :'( As far as homosexuals go, well, they got hated on all the time. Like the Jews, there was a general mistrust of homosexuals. He played on this as well to gain power. It's generally believed that Hitler himself didn't hate Jews in particular, but only used them to gain power, to accomplish his main goal, making the perfect race. (Blonde, blue eyes, hooked nose, Aryan descent)

Who or what was there to stop him?

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