Why does people hate the jews?

it is a common misinterpretation that it was the jews who killed Jesus, but in fact it was the romans. this myth took off when hitler killed all those jews for killing Jesus, but in fact it was the romans

Jews were the minority, and they were rich. You answered your own question. I'll go into a bit more detail, though. Yes, being rich would seem to be good for the economy, but the Jews owned many, many businesses and stuff. Most non-Jews didn't have money, and, well, they were the majority. Hitler was smart. Germany was reeling after WWII, somebody had to be blamed, so, who should it be? The people with the most money. Why? Think about it. Most poor and middle-class people have grudges against the rich. This was true even then. It has always been true (read the Bible, and how the Bible regards the rich). So, Hitler just used that and said "Look, they're hogging all your money and not sharing. They are the reason the country is in ruin, because they refuse to share with you. Because they own everything and make you slave for almost nothing. It's their fault!" Personally, I have no problem with the Jews. While I don't adhere to any religion, I find the Jewish belief to be the basis of all Western philosophy and religion, and I find Judaism to be very important, very good, and very much in line with my political and economical beliefs.

If Jews were rich in a poor Germany, where would all their money go if they were killed? BTW, 90% of the victims of the Holocaust were as poor as everyone else. It was the Great Depression, dumbass. "They are extremely rich and smart" Who's been blowin' smoke up your a$$, Bert? Asians are all smart, too. Just ask the billion or so rice farmin' peasants who earn $2.00 a day in China. It's a stereotype. As to why people have always hated Jews, there are several reasons. Christians consider all Jews complicit in the death of Jesus. Jews have always segregated themselves from the cultures where they live. They only marry other Jews and consider non-Jews inferior.

i think the answer lies in the fact that humans dont like things they dont understand since jews are engimatic and very poorly understood (takes 2 years of real jewish living i think) its easier just to hate em!

Im AMERICAN an i have nothing against jews. i hate mexicans

Well, the Jews are getting a break this year. Now it is much more chic to hate Muslims. Styles change so fast, it's hard to keep up with them

Well alot of it goes back to the middle ages when "christians" were not allowed to loan money to other "christians" with interest gained. This was called usury. No one wanted to loan money and get nothing back. But the Jews were exempt from this and became very sucessful in banking and loaning money. People became jealous of them and when the black plague hit many claimed the jews had poisoned wells and that was causing the sickness. (it is possible that many jews kept to the torahs laws of cleanliness and caught the plague alot less often. Most "christians at teh time saw bathing as evil and were proud of only bathing once a week) The plague though wiped out alot of population and the middle class and merchants became rich and proserous as a result. The black plague rumors likely continued and the catholic church started saying in some areas that the jews worshipped satan and had evil witch craft communion and sacrificed children. They also stated that the Jews were the ones who killed Jesus (though Jesus himself was Jewish and it was the Romans who killed him). This and just jealousy of their wealth help the inquistion to occur where the jews were tortured in some countries and just thrown out in others like Spain. Jews always valued education and passed banking jobs to their sucessive generations as others in Europe passed on blacksmithing or milling. Germany became poor as a result of World War 1. THe league of nations forced Germany to pay huge sums of money as reparations. Economy became worse and worse the mark value dropped and Germany was already bad off when the stock market crash of 1929 hit. I do not know if the Jews were excessively rich at this time in Germany I'd guess they were hit hard as well. But in Austria (where Hitler was from) Jews continued to fund soup kitchens because of the call to charity the torah(bible) calls for. Many think that Hitler (who did have to visit these to get food to survive) hated having to depend on them and seeing them still somewhat well off developed the theory that they were sucking the wealth out of Austria and Germany. The unfortunate truth is that many Jews bravely fought on the side of Germany in WW1. This is the modern historical reason for much of the hatred some have towards the jews. If you are Christian(with understanding of the Bible) or Jewish there are Biblically stated reason for why the Jews have it hard. But also states they will never be destroyed. And it is of note that they are one of the few people to ever lose their country be dispersed as a people and regain nearly it all back.

I think its pretty pathetic to hate ANY group, religious or cultural. I have British background and don't condone alot of what the English did to Scottish and Irish etc. This doesn't make me a bad person I don't think. If we are based soley on our religion or cultural heritage, we'd be a very sad world. Unfortunately alot of people do this however! :-(