Why Do People Really Hate Israel and the Jews?

The deeper cause for Anti-Semitism you MUST know about.

Hatred towards Jews and Israel is a deep and ancient phenomenon that has intrigued me since childhood, as a Jew and an Israeli.

I remember myself as a child, attending school ceremonies on Holocaust days, feeling scared, ashamed, and completely confused as to how such things could even happen.

In high school, I couldn’t stop raising my hand to ask questions, trying to get to the bottom of it. I wanted to know, how come people didn’t notice what was gradually happening? How come they let it (the Holocaust) happen? And most of all….why Jews?

In our times Anti-Semitism takes on many forms. You might think that hatred towards Israel can be disconnected from Anti-Semitism, but more often than not, it is one and the same.

Research shows that when people are reminded of the truth of their mortality, (i.e death), they tend to feel more blame towards Israel in comparison to any other country. Feeling bad, somehow makes Israel loom large. (Modern anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli attitudes, Cohen et.al 2009)

Indeed whenever something goes wrong in the world, whether it’s plagues, pandemics, wars, or natural disasters, Jews are always blamed for it sooner or…