Muslims, Christians and Jews oh my. How much better would be the world without religious fanatics, evangelizing and trying to make the world safe for themselves.
Believers of all sorts are cultists. Better not to believe but to think and arrive vs acquire, an opinion. Opinions can easily be changed, but not so with beliefs.
Beliefs are part of one's identity, to shed or abandon a belief is akin to a person adrift on the sea on piece of flotsam.
Beliefs are invalidated by the fact that others hold opposing beliefs, or beliefs that are not fully in accord with one's own, and they only way to resolve this problem (it is a difficulty not a problem) from the point of view of a believer is to either convert or kill the heretic or infidel. A shophworn practice of Christianity and Islam, but not of Judaism.. how about that.
The old testament talks of virtual genocide by Hebrews on the philistines (palestinians) and other non Hebrews but not a peep about conversion, in fact until the 20th century the religion made conversion virtually impossible, in the same way that early Islam made conversion difficult, perceiving it to be an Arab only religion.
Christians and Jews (Sephardim literally means, when translated from the Hebrew, People of the Book, I am aware that my Jewish brethern are taught that it means Spanish Jews), were exempted from conversion to Islam, as Peoples of the Book, kufr (infidels, heathens, polytheists) either had to say the Shahada (convert) or die, unless they converted to Christianity or Judaism.
Conversion to Judaism was made difficult by Rabbi's, conversion to Christianity was easy, simply submit to being baptised or Christened by a priest.
Voila, problem solved for valuable commodities, those slaves captured by conquest or trade. Either convert to Islam, a difficult undertaking especially under the Ummayads, or convert to Christianity.
Anyway hatred of Jews and Muslims is taught by family, friends and pastors or preachers. Christian evangelicals are not Jew lovers, far from it, they consider Jews Christ Killers, but support Israel because the believe that when Jerusalem is made capital of Israel again, Christ will come to earth, lift believers to heaven, and the rest of the world will suffer the apocalypsis (the word actually means The Beginning). They are about to discover that they have been fed a a bunch of you know what, but that won't deter the believer, any more than serial predictions of the End times has deterred Christians.
In the middle ages, monks and priests were promoting the end times when the year 1,000 came, but it came and went without a whimper, as had thousands of predictions since including Nostradumus and Heavens Gate, but rubes do not learn and believers are rubes.
Hatred of Jews has been promoted by rulers of kingdoms and states. Because Jews, might I call them by the name known to them by the Egyptians - Habiru, are an international peoples, a tribe based on a common mythology, they have international connections and thus have an advantage on international trade, as did the Huguenots (a Low Lands based, Calvinistic protestant sect)
International connections and a profound appreciation of an education, something lacking in European nations and America until the late 19th Century, resulted in Jews becoming artisans in the gold, silver and diamond industry, which then led to the accumulation of wealth.
Nation leaders like Kings, were always in pursuit of money (gold, Silver, precious jewels) to support their lifestyle, their entourage of nobles and their armies and navies.
The way to acquire wealth was either by invading a neighboring kingdom an stealing it, or by borrowing it.
The first bankers of note were the Knights Templar, they acquired so much wealth that they could lend it, and so they did to the King of France, who when it came time to repay the loan, was unable, his solution was to charge them heresy, blasphemy and all sorts of unspeakable thing, burn them at the stake and confiscate their wealth.
In the latter he failed as their wealth disappeared on ships to Scotland and other parts of the world, but he did succeed in eliminating his debt.
The next major banking family was the Fuggers of Italy, also Christians, who lent money to King Ferdinand of Spain, who was again unable to repay the debt, but by confiscating the property of the Muslims and Jews that he evicted in 1492, the year that Columbus set sail for the New World, he was able to repay the debt.
Between the Templars and the Fuggers was Edward I, deeply indebted thanks to his constant war and incurrsions into Scotland and to subdue England, he searched far and wide for a source of financing.
England at that time was the armpit of Europe, it's poorest relation. no real roads only worn and unrepaired paths, almost impossible to travel with wagons and a baggage train, even Royalty were dressed like lesser nobility of the continent.
And it remained that way until Henry VII defeated Richard III on Bosworth field.
The Jewish community of London, and Jews being merchants settled in commerical centers like London, scarcely found in the countryside, stepped forth and loaned him money. Money (gold and silver) which he could not repay. his solution to absolution of his debt to the Jews was to evict them from England.
Such gratitude, these Anglo Normans, And thus the beginning of the nefarious Jew.
It is perhaps true, that the grandsons of Ashkenaz (great grandson of Noah) were considered uncivilized, dirty, by east Europeans and Germans, they were clannish, practiced endogamy and lived in groups (shtetls), self imposed, which we know as ghetto's.
Keeping to themselves, except for commercial activities like shoemaking and tailoring, they came to be held in suspicion by their neighbors, as a consequence when something was amiss in their neighborhood they blamed the outsider, the foreigner, he or she who did not belong to the in group.. the Jew.
In the 20th Century, the problem was magnified both by the Jews themselves and by anti semites like Hitler.
n the 20th Century there were two flavors of Jews. The Sephardim Wiki says that the WJC was found in August 1936, but there conclaves before that.
The Sephardim had their start in the Low Countries, as the gold and silver from the lands they plunder on the American continent, flowed back to Spain, vast quantities of it went to the Lowlands (Netherlands, Belgium) where it was reworked and fashioned by artisans, most of them Sephardim as was Benjamin D'Israeli, prime minister and political mentor of Queen Victoria..
The Ashkenazim migrated west from Russia and Eastern Europe, having migrated from Khazaria to Russia where they were persecuted and not being Orthodox Christians created their own communities (shtetls), eventually reaching the low countries where they joined their religious brethern in the trades.
The World Jewish Congress, for reasons of its own, declared that all Jews were Ashkenazim, committing a form of genocide.
For transparency sake I have had my DNA tested at both 23andme and FTDNA, and am 7% Sephardim, gratis my mothers, mother, mother, mother who was a Sephardic Prussian who married a Catholic Prussian.
People hate fear, Jews for the same reason that they hate, fear, anyone, out of ignorance and because they were taught to hate.
I have been more mistreated by Christians than by Muslims or Jews, of course I live in a society dominated by Christians, but when I am doing business with someone and up front he tells me proudly that he is a Christian, I grab my wallet and run. Tis Christians that harass and try to control the bodies and lives of others like women, gays and non believers, and in that they are brethern of Muslims in their own land where they do the same, only more harshly, like Saudi Arabia, the Taliban, Isis.
Israel, with all of its faults and oppression of Palestinians, is more tolerant of it's own citizens, women, gays, non Jews, than Muslim countries (exception Iraq under Saddam) and of most Christian countries, except a hanful of States within the United States, but I suspect that will end under the dictatorship of Herr Trump