Explaining the Geyser of Jew-Hatred
American Thinker,
by
Joan Swirsky
Original Article
Posted By: Mercedes44,
8/10/2025 9:34:26 AM
Since the day that Israeli Jews were attacked, tortured, murdered, raped and burned to death on October 7, 2023, the entire world, save for a tiny minority, has vilified, excoriated, and blamed — ta-da! — the Jews! The victims!
Why? It’s really not that hard to figure out.
We live in a world of eight billion people, the vast majority of whom have never seen or spoken to or met a Jew...a Jew whose numbers constitute a microscopic 16 million, only half of that number in Israel, another approximate seven million in America, and about another million throughout the world.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/10/2025 10:21:05 AM (No. 1988757)
I'm tired of this...let IDF and Mossad finish the job....
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
chumley 8/10/2025 10:35:21 AM (No. 1988760)
Yes. Let them finish what must be done, but on their own nickel.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 8/10/2025 10:40:31 AM (No. 1988763)
Islam has rekindled a thousand years of hating Jews in the Europeans.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chance_232 8/10/2025 10:49:16 AM (No. 1988767)
Its either supernatural or mass psychosis.
There is no logical reason that mass populations would ignore facts and reason to blindly hate Jews and Israel.
That said, biblical end times prophecy says that in the last days, the entire world would turn on Israel. And the United States is one election away from joining the mix.
So.... in my opinion, its supernatural. Demonic influence and possession. This also explains the mass rejection of reason and morality to embrace hatered, immorality and intolerance. The solution is to return to God. Spread the word and defend Israel.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 8/10/2025 11:06:28 AM (No. 1988772)
Boomer hate is another unexplained phenomenon. I guess having someone to blame for your own problems and shortcomings is convenient.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/10/2025 11:21:17 AM (No. 1988777)
Haters gotta hate and if the number of Jews in the US is correct it makes them one of the smallest minorities in the country which would make them more of a target. Also, look at who is allied with the Muslims. The first group is the Commies who are at war with the West too. The second group is the globalists who have lots of money, power, and influence and see the Muslims and Commies as trade partners. Also, the activist culture really took off since Obama. Any loudmouth gets online and if they try to get a job, it will be somewhere they can influence others. Lots of Muslim activists out there.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 8/10/2025 11:28:02 AM (No. 1988781)
I’ve often thought that a lot of antisemitism stems from jealousy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/10/2025 11:44:05 AM (No. 1988790)
Strongly disagree, #2. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and has been our ally since its inception. We cannot abandon her. I have Jewish ancestors, over 100 of whom died in the Holocaust. Aiding Israel in defeating her enemies is a use of my tax dollars of which I heartily approve.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/10/2025 11:48:22 AM (No. 1988792)
Please forgive second post but I just read #7’s. It’s entirely correct. The Jews took a patch of desert and turned it into a thriving beautiful oasis. The countries which surround it are shiiteholes and the people who populate them are jealous. I remember way back during the Six Day War, as a teen, asking my father why so many people hated the Jews and his response was the same as #7’s.
There’s a reason why envy is one of the seven deadly sins.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/10/2025 12:26:38 PM (No. 1988804)
You have Jewish people, who are the people of God, and you have the Jews who despise God. This was true even back in the Exodus. Moses led the Jewish people out of Egypt and out of slavery. Many followed him out of hope, some out of fear. And some out of a sense of opportunity. They chafed under Egyptian Sovereignty. They desired power. And they tried to usurp Moses' leadership of the Hebrews every step of the journey. They led the complaints for food, for water, they questioned his judgement even with the Presence of God leading the way. When Moses went up the mountain, for the Ten Commandments, they brought back the worship of idols.
This is not a failing of Jews. It is a failing of humanity. We're all a contrary and stiff-necked bunch and among us are people who who want to control what everyone else does. And to impliment that, they point at those who oppose them and unleash a torrent of HATE.
What they hate, they try to manipulate others to fear. There are real threats - like Hamas. Then there are manufactured threats. Jews own the banks! Jews control the government! Jews sacrifice children in secret ceremonies... It goes on and on, because ultimately, Jews are people of family and of relationships. They help their own, when their people are down. And there will always be those who resent that. The Jews made a nation out of Israel. There weren't royal families conquering land, but families supporting each other and building lives. Fighting to defend one another, instead of running for the hills when threatened.
But when someone has abandoned their principles, they resent and hate those who have retained them, and seek to tear them down. They ally themselves with others who fear the success of those who retain their integrity. This is the Fountain of Hatred. And in a way, it's a good thing.
You only see this disgusting vehement effort in the face of Righteousness and Courage. Those who have faith are over the target. Bombs away.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/10/2025 12:49:07 PM (No. 1988816)
The hatred of Jews has always been a mystery to me. I have known a couple of Jews who were a***** but plenty of Gentiles also. Jews are smart, successful (see, Salk Sabin, Einstein, Oppenheimer) and dozens and dozens more.. Doctors, scientists, business people, entrepreneurs and on and on. It can and does cause hateful envy in a lot of cases by people who should know better. No wonder when the Hamas types see how the Israelis have turned their sliver of land into a tiny, successful country and most of the Arab States wallow in poverty for all but the Oil Sheiks and connected Arabs who depend on nothing but oil.
There is an old canard that some people say, "Some of my best friends are Jews" but in my parents' case it was true. Our parents were close friends with a Jewish couple. We shared meals, attended events together, funerals, and they had a beautiful daughter that I was too shy to ask out. when the men passed, mom and the other widow became like sisters. We are told by the left that discrimination against other minorities is wrong, but not for Jewish people.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/10/2025 12:52:00 PM (No. 1988819)
I wouldn't worry too much about that, #4.
Ezekiel 38-39.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Catherine 8/10/2025 12:57:15 PM (No. 1988822)
Got the shock of my life when we did one of those DNA tests. The expected European, Italian, Irish showed up but, also, something amounting to maybe three drops of blood surprised us - Jewish! I love it. A huge surprise. No older living relatives to ask which side it came from although I think it must be Italian. I never understood the hatred for them either. It's not like they're vicious terrorists or anything.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 8/10/2025 1:17:40 PM (No. 1988835)
As some other posters here have posted I too have never understood the hatred of Jews. Even as a young girl at Catholic schools and we were taught about religion I have always had a feeling for the Jewish faith. If I hadn't been raised Catholic I might have converted. I mentioned this to my Mom once and she told me she had always felt the same way.
BTW...Also as some posters here have mentioned how the Israeli's took a patch of desert and made it bloom, when they left the Gaza Strip in 2004(?) they left behind hundred of greenhouses where they raised fruits, vegetable and flowers to export and the Gaza's came in and destroyed all of them.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/10/2025 1:17:49 PM (No. 1988836)
There is no excuse, no reason, no nothing that warrants this behavior. So disgusted with our colleges, the students and the people that let them get away with this sickening behavior. Mark out the word Jew in the signs, in the social posts, in the diatribes, in the disfiguring of our monuments and buildings with the word black/African American and see how long this crap would be put up with. We fought a World War to end this behavior but like cancer it is back and growing. I am so ashamed of these people. This is how it was in the 1920's. Don't think it cannot happen again. And where are our elected officials of the Jewish faith? Why are they not speaking out? When these animals yell "death to the Jews" they mean all Jews. Those who practice their faith and those who do not. None of you are safe. I would like to suggest that the Jewish communities of the east coast, NYC in particular wise up. My God, what are we doing and why are we allowing it to happen?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 8/10/2025 1:38:40 PM (No. 1988850)
Re #4, the European press has been a unified front against Israel and for the Muslim terrorists for 50 years. and the fools in Europe are so misinformed and disinformed that they go along like sheep.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/10/2025 1:42:28 PM (No. 1988852)
This has gone on forever and shown up in strange ways. In junior high, something caused us to name our grandparents (my late Mother thought that autobiographies were teachers snooping). When I said "Isaac Newton (surname)" some kid snarked "I didn't know you were Jewish..." (" Ignorance an be fixed; stupid is forever")
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/10/2025 1:45:38 PM (No. 1988853)
hit submit too soon.
I trust that anyone here knows who Isaac Newton was.
And no, I'm not Jewish.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
dbdiva 8/10/2025 1:53:52 PM (No. 1988855)
There's also a spiritual component to this hatred. When God chose the Israelites as "His people", He did so for a number of reasons but the most important for us Christians is that God determined that His Son would come into the world out of this new nation ~ a Son Who was to make a profound difference in history. His disciples would spread God's Word throughout the known world at the time.
Even the OT Israelites who were scattered into other nations due to disobedience settled into those countries building synagogues and ultimately spreading the knowledge of God at the same time.
Satan is the primary purveyor of hate and he hates God and everything and everyone associated with Him. He was unable to tempt Jesus in the wilderness and Jesus defeated him at the cross. He has nursed his hatred for thousands of years ~ a hatred that culminates in antisemitism prevalent among those who have weak, hateful minds.
However, God will definitely pass judgment on these people....I'm sure of that.
Thanks to #15 for the comment; I totally agree.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mifla 8/11/2025 6:21:34 AM (No. 1989097)
I believe that some people hate the Jews because they want nothing to do with God.
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