>>445557
They're a mercantile disapora culture and sadly, those are never liked anywhere. The Armenians and some of the Chinese diaspora living in the island countries get the same treatment and have the same reputation in their respective spheres of existence. It's just that the jews are familiar to us.

It's actually because they never assimilate, not because they're a minority.

Their religion is racist to some extent, in that you can't just join in one day and be welcome into the club.

That gives them some "secret society" sort of feel.

>>445557
Not necessarily an scapegoat, people just doesn't like immigrants that never assimilate.

Also, the fact that they were minorities with as much contact if not more with other jews of other regions allowed for very profitable routes of commerce enhanced by this ethnic solidarity. Other peoples did the same, like the chinese in south east asia. Rural locals that led different lives tend to not like this.

>>445566
In any country that follows a universal religion like the abrahamic faiths, not converting to that religion is refusing to assimilate so that's basically just a meaningless tautology.

>>445567
Completely untrue. Jewish law has extensive protection for converts, to the point that it's forbidden to refer to them as converts.

>>445578
>Implying all tautologies are meaningless
>Implying a synthetic a posteriori statement is tautological
What you say about converts contradicts most of what I've read and heard from Jews, which is that there's an Old Boys Club that it takes a few generations to assimilate into.

>>445589
Nice anecdote.

>>445578
>not converting to that religion is refusing to assimilate
Jews believe religion is inherently intertwined with culture, so adopting cultural aspects of the host society is akin to changing their religion for them. To pretty much any other religion, this is a false association.

>>445668
You're forgetting to include the part about them actually doing that. You're thinking of an ultra-orthodox minority.

>>445589
I could be wrong but I believe I read somewhere that Jews converted quite a lot before the rise of Christianity and Islam. They stopped converting after that because they didn't want to piss off the church.

>>445678
You mean religious Jews?

>>445557
>religion insists you are the chose people of God
>refuse to assimilate into any culture that offers you a home
>treat non-jews with a different set of rules
Gee, I wonder why.

>>445854
Yeah, the rules for non-jews are way more lax.

>why is a mercantile xenophobic culture that leeches and abuses other cultures get oppressed
or did i just answer the question?

>>445557
You would have to refer to each period of oppression in history.
The oppression they received during the Spanish Inquisition was largely due to
a. their involvement in the invasion of the Moors and the conquest of the Iberian peninsula
b. their superficial conversion to Roman Catholicism in order to retain wealth

>>445565
>mercantile disapora culture
What does this mean?

>>445578
>Completely untrue. Jewish law has extensive protection for converts, to the point that it's forbidden to refer to them as converts.
and the bible says to not eat shellfish

>>446089
The Orthodox actually follow the old law though. However, while it's very true that the torah is very clear on how to treat converts. Most Jews are notoriously cold towards them. It's not impossible to find an accepting Jewish family, far from it, but the fact that the new bride/groom is a convert is often kept on a need-to-know basis.

None of this is relevant to modern reform jews and the like but it is to Orthodox and would definitely have been the case throughout history. Jews are extremely insular and discourage conversion as a rule.

>>445557
Looking at it a different way, maybe there's not a giant conspiracy out to get them, but rather they bring the hate upon themselves because of how they try to exploit and manipulate others for their own gain. Their nepotism is incredibly well known, just look at Hollywood or the media in general. They believe what they do is justified too, since they think they are the 'chosen people'.

Jews don't assimilate so they are always identifiable as an ethnic group within a community. Add on to this that they are a very insular and close knit with each other and it makes people suspicious of them in general.

They also tend to be better educated due to their religious traditions. As a result they often succeed easily in commerce.

Because of that and their tendency to flock together, the common view of Jews throughout history is that they are parasites. They favor Jews over their fellow countrymen, they work readily with foreigners who are Jewish even against the interests of their countrymen. They practice usury against non-Jews, and generally exploit whatever community they reside in for financial gain, feeling no loyalty to it whatsoever.

There are elements of truth in these stereotypes. Taken at face value, it paints Jews as a race of vampires, something too despicable to exist. What you see in practice though is garden variety envy and mistrust inflaming suspicions of a standoffish people who to be fair do not really do much to make themselves loved by their neighbors.

>>446153
Yes, largely due to their nepotism as >>446106 pointed out. Jews overwhelmingly favor other Jews when making contracts or hiring subordinates. It's not really a secret. They also favor professions that allow them to make money without producing anything.

It really depends on where they were living and when. When taking into account the various purges and pogroms during the Diaspora, most Jews were actually poor, from constantly being run out of town in the middle of the night or forced to live in tiny, economically stunted, Jew only Shtetls. Judaism places great value on the strength of communities and charity, so even individually poor Jews found some stability living in these small communities, who provided education, kosher food and jobs all within the local community. This was the case in Eastern Europe, where the ideals gained from communal living partially explains the affinity of some Russian Jews with Communism/Socialism.


In Western Europe, Jews were treated much the same as elsewhere and subject to pogroms and discrimination. However, medieval restrictions on the types of employment Jews could take resulted in the fulfillment of the Jewish banker stereotype.
There is a very important caveat about this. Jews were periodically purged from various western European nations, but SOME Jews got preferential treatment by the nobility. The Nobility used the Jewish financial elite to finance their monarchies, sparing the lives of the elite few while purging out the vast majority of Jewish commoners. The idea of the "Court Jew" or the token Jew to handle finances came from this; it also served later as a scapegoat for financial instability as one could blame the Jews in the banks and leave the ruler scot-free.

This created a stark difference between the Jews of East and West Europe: Western Jews hid their Jewishness and did their utmost to serve their masters while they still had their favor, while Eastern Jews suffered the brunt of antisemitism from holding on to their culture and living outside of nonjewish society. There is no single Jewish stereotype that holds for both; in any case, the flaw as seen through antisemitism was not their habits or culture, but the undefined "Jewishness" that led to persecution.

I have to go to bed OP, but I suggest you investigate
>Jewish leaders of the 2nd wave of feminism and their political leanings
>Jewish leaders and founders of the NAACP
>Jewish banking cartels and nepotism, from the Rothchilds in Europe to the Mendes in the Ottoman empire to the last 2 chairmen of the Federal Reserve to Goldman Sachs, etc.
>Jewish impact on art, namely influence of modern art within the last 100 years
>List of Jewish Russian Bolsheviks and their power
>List of Jewish German Bolsheviks (1917-1918) and their attempt at power
>Jewish origins of Marxism
>Frankfurt School
>Jewish stealing of the spotlight- for example Jonas Salk was not the creator of the first successful polio vaccine
>Jewish control of Hollywood
>Jewish control of news media
Just to start.
I will say this, the dissolution of Western civilization and culture often coincides with Jewish power.

>>446206
I think the Frankfurt School is possibly one of the most disturbing things I've read about tbqh.

>>446214

Have you actually read anything one of its members wrote?

>>446086

>Middle men, often taking up practices like banking. Due to this control of wealth, they often have to deal with a large amount of prejudiced sentiment and conspiracy theories.

>>446221
I've read up on Critical Theory, which was their invention, their goal was to bring Marxism into a social context.

I think you can really see the difference it has had on society when you look at non-Western countries which are very well off like Japan. In the West people have been taught to think that society can only move forward by becoming as progressive and leftist as possible, it's so ingrained that people don't even think about it. It's why people call Caitlyn Jenner a hero and name her woman of the year. They are simply topics that people don't care about in places like Japan and basically anywhere but the West.

>>446242
>It's why people call Caitlyn Jenner a hero and name her woman of the year.
Litterally everybody I know hates Bruce Jenner and thinks she's a murderer and is a symbol of how fucked up the American legal system is because a rich person can get away with murder.