As long as the Jews work hard and continue to make something of themselves in this world, they will always be reviled and despised. I guess the only way to stop anti-Semitism is for all Jews to just become lazy and expect hand-outs like almost every other minority on the face of the planet has done. The fact that Jews never let their victim status hamper their efforts in the long run contributes to more anti-Semitism, which is just thinly-veiled envy...
I read somewhere a statistic about the population of a European town in the middle ages. Jews made up something like 6% of the town but made up something like 60% of all bankers, merchants and other middle-class positions. (That's just an approximation of the actual numbers that I can't remember.) We all know the reasons for this, but still... you can understand but not excuse why people must have despised them.
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Date: 2005-08-20 12:14 am (UTC)I read somewhere a statistic about the population of a European town in the middle ages. Jews made up something like 6% of the town but made up something like 60% of all bankers, merchants and other middle-class positions. (That's just an approximation of the actual numbers that I can't remember.) We all know the reasons for this, but still... you can understand but not excuse why people must have despised them.