Violence against Jewish People Makes No Sense at All.

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43. My two cents worth

Jews have traditionally been used as scapegoats by unscrupulous leaders in order to maintain power. Especially if they are failing as leaders and want to become dictators. Other ethnicities and religious followers have also been targeted throughout history. Muslims were targeted during the crusades and even up to the present when Trump tried to ban them from coming here. If George W Bush had wanted to blame all Muslims for 9/11 he would have enabled a huge backlash aimed at them. Imagine if Trump had been president at that time! And there have been plenty of mass and deadly attacks on Muslims and Mosques in this country.

Christians were persecuted and killed by the Romans, starting with the judgement and cruxifiction of Jesus of Nazareth. But in that case it may have been persecution of Jews who had converted to Christianity. Religious explanations for violent actions is a morass of emotionally misdirected backlashes created by leadership. Mostly to misdirect attention away from their own failures, or to feed their greed for power.

History shows that emotional manipulation of the masses is laughably easy. We are arguably living that history right now.

It’s not about making sense.