A better understanding of Antisemitism

Rather than joking about it, I would be be doing all that I could to mend public relations because there are a lot of people buying into the antisemitism. I see it only getting worse when people do not take it seriously.
What does the rest of the world think about the Jews and what have the Jews been doing to put peoples minds at ease? I would hate to see another holocaust.
I would take antisemitism more seriously and I do not mean creating laws that make it illegal to speak out against Jewish people but rather spending a little more time with your surrounding communities to let them know that you have a hart.

Please keep in mind that this is only my observation from my point of view and I am certain that not everyone shares my point of view.

)No, there aren't a lot of people buying into that ****.

There is a lunatic fringe of hard-core racists who spread this bullshit, and an insignificant fraction of the population (such as you) who are credulous enough to take the hate-inspired propaganda seriously.

Upon which basis i'm even more inclined to follow my previous instincts and just ignore you.

I take anti-Semitism extremely seriously. I was taunted and hit for being a Jew in 6th grade. That serious enough for you?

Most of the United States, so far as I can tell, has come to the conclusion that Jews aren't monsters. The public relations you see as needing mending is, at least in the US, mostly mended.

By the way, the word is heart. A hart is a male deer.

I spend time in my community. I live here. And I don't need to yap on about my religion any more than my Catholic and Protestant and Muslim neighbors do. We pitched in to help save our local library. We fix up our home and everyone's property values go up. We say good morning at the bus stop and we tell the grocer when we've been given back too much change. If someone's toddler runs out into the street, we help to hold back the cars so that child's parent can catch him or her before getting hurt.

I have an interest in the understanding of human behavior and in my quest for understanding the origins of antisemitism I have come to the conclusion that many Jewish people are well educated and have been for 1,000's of years, with this being so they seem to have had an economic advantage over many people.
Many Jews [Not all}seem to have practiced business the same way that non- Jews practiced business {sociopathically and less sociopathically} but with a much higher success rate than many non Jewish people.

When these Jews found themselves doing very well they also found themselves being hated by some people in the same professions, other people thought that they had been taken advantage of and many people have been fed propaganda that may have been true and some that was false, This seems to be what sparked a lot of hate.

In my opinion it does seem that some Jews just like non Jews have indulged in sociopathic or unethical business practices on a very large scale and for a very long time, we can find these practices in the old testament and throughout history in such things as slave trade and usury.
Keep in mind that the Jews were not the only people engaging in such practices and it does seem that their God allows for such practices, What is our excuse?

I would like to hear from many others on this subject because this is how I learn.

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I would think that it may have had more to do with their education.

To be a pious Jew it was important to be able to read, thus an emphasis on education, but education was not for earning money early on in their history. Imagine you live in a world where most people make a living by farming and yet you are forbidden in most places to own land; or if you do own land you might lose it quickly to people who can take it from you without punishment. What do you do? You put your trade in your head - thus knowledge becomes your greatest asset. You can live anywhere and have a way to make money. You can pack up your books and run to a safe place. The only way someone can steal your profession is by killing you. If you look back into history you will see Jews start to transition to a knowledge based society from an agricultural based society not so much because they want to, but because they are forced to.

....I do wish that the Jewish community would form a group that was more visible [I am one that is not very observant] so that all would know what they are doing to help out communities and not only their own communities but the global community.

But why is that needed? Truly. Think about it. Do other minorities feel the need to trumpet that they're doing wonderful things for the world? I appreciate you saying I'm a great citizen, but I don't do these things to be recognized or to be loved or to be a credit to my faith or anything of the sort. I do them because I think they're the right things to do. I don't look for an audience.

I'm fine with people knowing how wonderful I am (or people like me are), but then of course we are hit with the Jews are smarter, Jews think they're so great whatever kind of argument. Ya can't win when playing that kind of a "look how awesome we are, in case you had no idea" game.

Plus - really - can't people open history books and look? Jonas Salk was a Jew. Alexander Fleming was not. Why is it so important to know Salk's faith and not Fleming's? Why do you believe that the people of Salk's faith need to advertise, whereas those of Fleming's (probably Presbyterian, as if that mattered one whit) don't? Is either's achievement better/more helpful/smarter/more kick-ass awesome because we know which day they rested (or were supposed to), which language they prayed in (or were supposed to) and whether or not they ate pork?

Do other minorities feel the need to trumpet that they're doing wonderful things for the world?

But why is that needed?

This is a religion with several sects. Is the Jewish community Orthodox? If they are, then I am not a part, as I barely can read Hebrew, haven't had kids by choice and haven't made aliyah and haven't been to synagogue in years. Is it Reform? Then I am not a part, for I know too much Hebrew, and probably practiced too much when I was younger. Is it Chasid? Then I am not a part, for I, a married woman, do not wear a sheitl, and I work outside the home. Is it Conservative? Reconstructionist? Is it Ashkenazi? Is it Sephardic?

I dated a guy in 1987 and into early 1988, my last serious boyfriend before the man who became my husband. And he introduced me to his grandmother. For whatever reason, she told me that she was his grandfather's second wife, and that the first one had been Jewish. And she said to me, "And you know how those people are."

Sounds to me that you are an anti-Semite, plain and simple.