Speaking of the most difficult people in history, the Jews are naturally counted as one of them, their history of suffering has a long history, but the resilience of this nation is also extremely admirable, Jews only account for 0.2% of the world, according to statistics, from 1901 to 2004, a total of 167 Jews won the Nobel Prize, which is 22% of the total number of winners.
And Einstein, Zuckerberg, Natalie Portman and other elites from all walks of life are from Jews. In contrast, in history, the West has a very prejudice against Jews, and in World War II, it was even more to the point of extermination. What is the reason for this? Let's look at what the Jews of the past did and what stories happened.
Historically, the Jews living in Jerusalem, who did not submit to Roman rule, were driven out of their holy city and began a wandering journey of nearly 2,000 years.
However, the first conflict between the Jews and Europe was the question of religion, and it is well known that later Christianity was a branch of Judaism, but the most serious difference between the doctrines of the two religions was that the Jews believed only in God as the only God, so the Romans, who believed in polytheism, began to regard these Jews as outliers.
Later, after Christianity became the state religion, Christianity was even more committed to erasing the shadow brought about by Judaism, and they changed the Bible of Judaism to the Old Testament, and their new part was called the New Testament, which only wanted to imply that the current God had reached a new agreement with the believers, and Judaism became history.
On the other hand, Jews are rendered and implied to be menace and endangered, among whom Judas, who framed Jesus, is portrayed as a despicable and shameless traitor, who is of Jewish descent, which has also allowed countless Christians to wear colored glasses on Jews, even though God Jesus is also of Jewish origin.
The second point is the idea of both sides, the Jews are a very economically minded people, good at business, pay attention to economy, which inevitably created a group of speculative merchants, as well as usurers, although the Jews believe that borrowing money should pay interest, is a normal thing, but many Christians regard it as a despicable act of falling into the well, and many gamblers and drunkards, because they are unable to repay usury, have been forced to destroy their families, usurers but profit from it, and many foreign Jewish merchants It also competed with local forces, which more or less created xenophobia among The inhabitants of Europe, and Jews were further portrayed as stereotyped and negative.
Even Shakespeare is not exempt from vulgarity, and in his pen, one of the four miserly ghosts, Sherlock, the Jew in The Merchant of Venice, is a mercenary villain.
By the 15th century, anti-Semitism was becoming more and more serious, for example, in 1492, King Ferdinand II of Spain openly announced the expulsion of all Jews in the territory, for which many people had to go into exile in the Ottomans. On the eve of World War II, Nazi Germany under Hitler's leadership became more and more harsh on Jewish policies, but other Western countries turned a blind eye to it, while many countries such as Britain and France also showed a very negative attitude towards Jewish refugee applications, or directly rejected them.
During World War II, because of Hitler, hatred of Jews reached a peak, and Hitler openly stated in his book "Mein Kampf": "The greatest antithesis of the Aryans is the Jews." At that time, the Nazis also had the need to divert social contradictions, and a large number of innocent people were also persecuted.
From today's point of view, the treatment of Jews has multiple factors such as history and themselves, and their cohesion and creativity are indeed admirable and surprising, and I hope that in the future, both Jews and peoples of the world will be able to maintain this hard-won peace.