>>12764390I think people tend to mean outsiders when they say jews, in some sense.
Like if America were to collapse, or be taken over by another nation, that would mean devastation for most people, black and white alike. But jews could just go to Israel.
In the past, when Jews lived in Greece and Spain, they were given rights, but lived as sort of an outgroup. When muslims took over, the greeks and spaniards were terribly oppressed, but the jews still just lived as this outgroup, this 'other'. The spaniards and greeks were really angry, they felt like they had been betrayed by people who they gave rights to. The same thing has happened throughout europe and throughout history.
When someone whose life and whose children's lives depend on their state, their people, prospering, or at least not collapsing, they make decisions with that in mind. They're less likely to start a busniess that enriches themselves to the detriment of the community, because they are a part of that community, and they depend on it. If someone lives as sort of an outsider, and would be perfectly happy if the state were taken over, or if it collapsed and they had to move on to a different state, they don't tend to weigh those factors into their decisions.
At least that's my impression of where this all comes from. It's an ancient mistrust. Hopefully it will weaken as the jews have a homeland now, and they are seen as any other group.
