Is Anti-Semitism Justified?

An irrational hatred of an individual because they belong to a particular racial group, particularly if that hatred results in direct harm to that individual, is not to be condoned.  Whilst I do not agree with the passing of "hate" laws designed to inhibit free speech (it should not be illegal to have an irrational hatred of a racial group), it should be recognised that to do harm to somebody as a result of their race alone is despicable.

However, when examined dispassionately, it can be argued that the dislike of Jewish people has occurred at many times and in many places, over hundreds of years.


In his work, "Synagogue of Satan", Andrew Hitchcock makes a partial list of 47 areas of the world that Jews have been expelled from between 1012 and 1891 (click here for a similar list).


He quotes Jewish writer Bernard Lazare who, in 1894, said:


"If this hostility, even aversion, had only been shown towards the Jews at one period and in one country, it would be easy to unravel the limited causes of this anger, but this race has been on the contrary an object of hatred to all the peoples among whom it has established itself. It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very distant from each other, since they were ruled by very different laws, governed by opposite principles, since they had neither the same morals, nor the same customs, since they were animated by unlike dispositions which did not permit them to judge of anything in the same way, it must be therefore that the general cause of anti-Semitism has always resided in Israel itself and not in those who have fought against Israel.”

What is the cause of this hatred and is it justified?

Is it because it is perceived that it was Jewish bankers who created and benefit from the unsustainable, immoral, debt-based financial system that we currently have?

Is it because of the actions of the State of Israel?


Is it because Jewish people seem to have an disproportionate influence over the Government of the United States?


Is it because the leaders of the Bolshevism movement, which lead to Communism in Russia, were Jewish?


I would ask that if you are tempted to comment on this post and attempt to demonise me as an anti-Semite, that you make an attempt to show what your research shows the reasons for the historic dislike of Jewish people.