O/T:- Palestine / Israel

[countygump]

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).

I thought that might one of the reasons. Judaism does not believe Christ to be the son of God, they believe he is a false prophet as there is only one God. Hence you can't have one in heaven and his son on earth. But Islam doesn't recognise him as the son of God either, though they do recognise him as a disciple of God, born of a miracle, (the virgin birth). But as you say, there are half a dozen other religions who do not recognise Jesus. I wondered if the crucifixion itself played a role in this age old "dislike" of the Jews. Though Pilate, (a Roman prefect), was responsible for his actual death, it was the high priest of Jerusalem, (Joseph Caiaphas, a Jew) who gave him up, as he prob saw Jesus as an agitator causing unrest.