The Racial Theory
Maybe Jews have been hated because they are a different
race.
The overriding problem with this theory is that it is self-contradictory:
Jews are not a race. Anyone can become a Jew – and members of every race, creed and
color in the world have done so at one time or another.
There is no
distinguishing racial physical feature common only to Jews. Even the idea of a
"Jewish nose" is a myth. (A study done in 1911 disproved the "existence of
the Jewish nose.") Anti-Semites don’t hate only those Jews who have
distinctively Jewish physical features; they hate all Jews.
They hate Eastern
European Jews; they hate Israeli, Russian and Yemenite Jews; they hate blond, blue-eyed
Dutch Jews as well as dark-skinned, Mediterranean-looking Jews. Any Jew will do.
Anti-Semitism cannot be explained as racism for the
very simple reason that Jews are not a race.
