Hate Of Religion: What Is Anti-Semitism Today?

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This world is full of hatred. Hatred that is senseless. People hating other sports teams because of the division. People that hate certain politicians because of the way media makes them. People that hate OTHER people just because of their skin color. It’s all magnificently meaningless, I don’t care your reasoning, because your reasoning is stereotypes, and stereotypes ‘aren’t okay’ according to Jaime Smith, Math teacher at Massabesic High School. But in this paper, we are going to talk about the hate of religion. Hatred towards Judaism to be specific. Anti-Semitism. In this article you’ll learn what Anti-Semitism is and why hatred towards Jews is senseless. Also, what is anti-Semitism today?

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What is anti-Semitism? Anti-Semitism is hostility to or prejudice against Jews. Dating all the way back to the building of the pyramids where The Jewish were used as slaves in which they were saved by Moses who was spoken to by God. The Jewish people were enslaved by Egyptians. Even further back, The Crusades involved slaughtering and rape of Israelites (Jewish

and Muslim), and of course in more recent times, the genocide of the Jewish and other “Non-perfect persons”.
According to simpletoremember.com there are 4 reasons why anti-Semitism is unique.

“1) Longevity -- it's been around a long time 2) Universality -- virtually everywhere in the world 3) Intensity -- it's expressed in a particularly virulent manner 4) Confusion -- there is surprisingly little agreement on why people hate the Jews.” This is not only explaining why anti-Semitism is so unique, it is also debunking the act of such. The Bible story of Moses Shows the longevity piece of anti-Semitism, including the enslavement of such. This shows enough is enough, hatred can only last so long for the killing of a single man. Universality, This calls for more current times like WWII and forward. There are organizations all over the world that worship Nazism, or are white supremacist (KKK being a more radical form). Of course White Supremacists wreak hate on more than just the Religion of Judaism but it’s of course still a

factor.
Intensity, This can go along with worshiping of Nazism and White Supremacy, KKK, ETC. According to current President, Donald J. Trump, within our own Country of the USA there are acts of such radical forms of anti-semitism. This next part being completely baffling

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completely debunks any positive use of anti-semitism. Confusion. The fact people can’t agree on why there is hatred on the Jews. This just radiates stupidity.
Let me give you an example: The 5 monkeys and a ladder.
A group of scientists placed five monkeys in a cage, and in the middle, a ladder with bananas on top. Every time a monkey went up the ladder, the scientists soaked the rest of the monkeys with cold water. After a while, every time a monkey would start up the ladder, the others would pull it down and beat it up. After a time, no monkey would dare try climbing the ladder, no matter how great the temptation. The scientists then decided to replace one of the monkeys. The first thing this new monkey did was start to climb the ladder. Immediately, the others pulled him down and beat him up. After several beatings, the new monkey learned never to go up the ladder, even though there was no evident reason not to, aside from the beatings. The second monkey was substituted and the same occurred. The first monkey participated in the beating of the second monkey. A third monkey was changed and the same was repeated. The fourth monkey was changed, resulting in the same, before the fifth was finally replaced as well. What was left was a group of five monkeys that – without ever having received a cold shower – continued to beat up any monkey who attempted to climb the ladder. 5 Monkeys beating eachother up for no apparent reason, only because their little society did so. That sounds familiar to why people can’t agree on why they hate the jewish population. Why attack someone without any definite reason? Is it our empty minded primal instincts? We are all civilized at this point, apparently unless you’re anti-semitic

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Written in Anne Frank’s diary is something quite interesting; "Who knows -- it might even be our religion from which the world and all peoples learn good, and for that reason and that reason alone do we now suffer.

We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English , or representatives of any other country for that matter. We will always remain Jews." It shows unfair treatment to the Jewish. There’s black people who are just considered black or at the minimum, African. At least there is a sense of home in that. Judaism is a religion, which makes it different. There’s no sense of home being called a Jew, in the prospective someone is just identifying you. There are Jewish people right here in America, and judging by Anne Frank’s words I’ll bet the jewish-american population are identified as a “Jew” before anything else, and going back into the intro that is the cause of stereotypes. Is it because the Jewish population doesn’t stand out? To be labeled by religion it’s not even as unique as being a number in a system. At least you’re your own special

number.
What are some reasons for the hate on the Jewish? There’s the argument according to ihr.org that it was the Jews who killed Christ. As that obviously is true, Christianity wasn’t popular at that time, i Judaism was the most popular by a landslide. In fact your Lord and Savior was Jewish himself. This argument being invalid because there are radical members of other religions who have killed the Jewish. Christians specifically, not your average but your extremist. You might think Hitler but it is believed he was anti-christian he just wasn’t so genocidal about it.

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Back to Trump. He is the United States Of America’s current President. Recorded by New York Times Trump said: “Today and every day of my Presidency, I pledge to do everything I can to continue that promise of freedom for the African Americans and for every American. So
important. Nothing more important. This tour was a meaningful reminder of why we have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms. The anti-Semitic threats targeting the Jewish community and Community Centers are horrible, and are painful, and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice, and evil.” (For full video visit https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004945635/trump-anti-semitic-threats-are-horrible.html ).Trump isn’t a Franklin Delano Roosevelt by any means but he got his point across. A man proposed by the media to be racist and sexist, some even saying the second coming of Hitler. Would the second coming of Hitler openly support the Jewish Community? So the fact “Hitler” himself is saying that we need to do something about anti-Semitism is very alarming.
As you have learned, there are things that make anti-semitism very different from other hatreds. Longevity, Universality, Intensity, and Confusion. Those are the perfect ingredients for a meaningless hate group.