Hate Of Religion: What Is Anti-Semitism Today?

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This world is full of hatred. Hatred that is senseless. People hating other sports teams because of the division. People that hate certain politicians because of the way media makes them. People that hate OTHER people just because of their skin color. It’s all magnificently meaningless, I don’t care your reasoning, because your reasoning is stereotypes, and stereotypes ‘aren’t okay’ according to Jaime Smith, Math teacher at Massabesic High School. But in this paper, we are going to talk about the hate of religion. Hatred towards Judaism to be specific. Anti-Semitism. In this article you’ll learn what Anti-Semitism is and why hatred towards Jews is senseless. Also, what is anti-Semitism today?

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“1) Longevity -- it's been around a long time 2) Universality -- virtually everywhere in the world 3) Intensity -- it's expressed in a particularly virulent manner 4) Confusion -- there is surprisingly little agreement on why people hate the Jews.” This is not only explaining why anti-Semitism is so unique, it is also debunking the act of such. The Bible story of Moses Shows the longevity piece of anti-Semitism, including the enslavement of such. This shows enough is enough, hatred can only last so long for the killing of a single man. Universality, This calls for more current times like WWII and forward. There are organizations all over the world that worship Nazism, or are white supremacist (KKK being a more radical form). Of course White Supremacists wreak hate on more than just the Religion of Judaism but it’s of course still a …show more content…

We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English , or representatives of any other country for that matter. We will always remain Jews." It shows unfair treatment to the Jewish. There’s black people who are just considered black or at the minimum, African. At least there is a sense of home in that. Judaism is a religion, which makes it different. There’s no sense of home being called a Jew, in the prospective someone is just identifying you. There are Jewish people right here in America, and judging by Anne Frank’s words I’ll bet the jewish-american population are identified as a “Jew” before anything else, and going back into the intro that is the cause of stereotypes. Is it because the Jewish population doesn’t stand out? To be labeled by religion it’s not even as unique as being a number in a system. At least you’re your own special

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