Why Everyone hates Jews?

“Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics,
and the Catholics hate the Protestants,
and the Hindus hate the Muslims
and everybody hates the Jews.”

-       Tom Lehrer

Despite only 13 million Jews in the world – less than one fourth of one percent of the earth’s population, this tiny group inspire bitter, widespread and often violent animosity. The common reasons for Anti Semitism( A term coined for hatred of Jews) frequently offered are :

" Jews control all the wealth and power."

"Jews are arrogant and claim to be the 'chosen people"

"Jews are a specific and convenient group to single out and blame for the world's troubles"

" Jews killed Jesus. "

"Jews are different. (The dislike of the unlike.) Jews separate themselves from us" 

“We are racist- and Jews are an inferior race." 

The number two result on Google custom search engine on typing “Why everyone hates” returns the following (see pic). This is itself a reflection of the number of users trying to figure out the reasons for hatred of Jews. Anti Semitism is unique in this respect that there is surprisingly little agreement on why people hate the Jews. Yet, everyone across the world over a large period of time have expressed it in a particularly virulent manner. This actually says that this is not an idea or a theory, but rather a belief held by many people and propagated by the same bunch across the world.

Details about whether these are mere excuses or are genuine causes have been widely debated over the internet. Arguments have been provided that cite these reasons as mere excuses. The actual original reason too has been widely debated over the internet.

One of the primary claim is that Judaism is superior to other religions in the fact that it gave learning that were widely accepted and literally civilized the world. Human Psychology states that hating someone makes them  more powerful. And this hatred is heightened when you truly believe in your heart that the other party is superior. A great many people simply can’t cope with the burden of being good. However, when they act in ways that are bad, they can’t cope with the resultant feelings of guilt. Try as they may, they can never cut themselves loose from the standards of absolute morality dictated by the Jewish religion. Stuck in this "Catch-22" situation, people turn with their mounting frustrations against the Jews, who they perceive as personifying humanity’s collective conscience.

People who express hatred, resentment or fear regarding the Jews almost always focus on charges of Jewish arrogance, elitism, aggressiveness and lust for power. Emphasis on “Chosen people”, and prosperity of Jews in most nations in which they’ve established significant communities might be attributed to this unjust hatred.

But whatever the actual originating reason, the same is not prevalent in today’s era because everyone seems so confused about the reasons. Or Maybe, the reasons cited for hatred are dynamic and vary as one development succeeds another, the latest one being Israel’s inhumane acts against Palestine.