[Fishing-guy]

Historically, why was there so much hatred for Jews?

This hatred seems to span the entire European continent. Of course, blaming Jews for killing Jesus is just another excuse for their hatred.

[Ingtar]

Do they dare enrage their Islamofacist masters?

[dinok]

Blaming Jews for Jesus's murder has been an excuse to hate someone. I'm sure there is a phycological defect there somewhere.

[muawiyah]

So, the question is "Why did Europeans hate the Jews".

Actually, this hatred was nothing special. They hated the Gypsies even more, and when it came to the Mongols, they fought some serious wars to keep them out. Same with the North Africans, Franks, Teutons, Greeks, Romans, and probably most others who ever thought to show up in Europe, invited or not.

The French government once undertook to destroy the Protestants by murdering them all. In fact, the French government still pursues that policy, although a tad quieter these days.

Europeans definitely have an attitude problem.

[William Martel]

I have often wondered this myself. One of the biggest complaints Europeans in older times had against the Jews was that they practiced usury. In more recent times, the Jews were blamed for controlling influential institutions in society while racially being non-Europeans (this was Hitler's main charge... he went even further and blamed them for Marxism, utter materialism, and, ironically, a desire to take over the world). Personally, I think it stims from the fact that, for the most part, Jews have been a minority in most places they have gone, different in one way or another from the rest of the population.