Quote Originally Posted by OchPie View Post
If only the latter were true. A few moments on Israeli twitter would swiftly disabuse you of that notion.



Christopher Hitchens observed that the Jews rejected the message of both Jesus and Mohammed, of Church and of Mosque. That undoubtedly contributed.

That said, if it had been Buddhists who took land from the Palestinians to establish a state, and then spent decades keeping the Palestinians in a state of occupation, does anyone really think there wouldn't be a hatred of Buddhists?

The lack of peace, and Israeli occupation, undoubtedly drives hatred and conflation of "Israeli" and "Jewish" (not helped as Israel's current government moves towards abandoning the secular nature of the state).
Plain antisemitism here.

The Jews contributed to their persecution because they stuck to their faith?