An offtopic response to the third paragraph:

Oil.

One thing that is remarkable is that many of the stereotypes of Jews have a positive as well as negative interpretation and therefore a philo and an anti can have a similar picture and perceive it almost opposite, because of their emotional makeup. It is suprising no one has mentioned it.

for instance Jews "are":

Anti-semite: "An evil conspiracy to rule the world!"/ Philo-semite:"What have you been smoking?!"

OK just kidding. But here are some real examples of what I am talking about.

Anti: "Timid"   /  Philo: "Peaceful"

Anti: "Militaristic Imperialists" /Philo: "Make the desert bloom and God bless the IDF"

Obviously these are contradictory if Jews are percieved as monalithic. Which proves again that while stereotypes can be useful in identifying shared characteristics(all groups share characteristics or they wouldn't be groups) when they become monolithic they are irrational as well as cruel.

Jews "are":

Anti: "Money-grubing"/Philo: "enterpriseing"

Anti: "Cunning"/ Philo: "Intelligent"

Anti: "Only care for their own"/ Philo: "Care a lot for their own"

Anti: "Fanatical"/ Philo: "Devoted"

Anti: "Tribalistic"/Philo: "What's wrong with that?"

Anti: "Rootless"/Philo: " 'Well-Travelled', 'Citizens of the World', etc"

Anti: "Dual Loyalty"/Philo: "Maintain Ties"

And on, and on

 

 

Anti semitism is clearly illogical.  If we were to believe claims that "the Jews control the world", well, then they must suck at it if you look at how things have gone for them in the world.

 

And if it were true that the Israel lobby controls the US, then the Sixth Fleet would be anchored off Gaza, blasting away whenever a rocket flies out of Gaza.  That's what we would do to a neighbor that bombards us, certainly we would do nothing less if Israel controlled us.

 

Heck, Cuba?  1962?  We were prepared to launch the nukes because an unfriendly neighbor merely HAD rockets!

 

We don't take well to things like that.  The Israelis show far more restraint than we ever would.

 

SGTObvious

read deuteronomy it spells it out.

Also sartre's "anti semite & jew"

Where in Deut? Oh and as a side note I thought I heard somewhere that your version doesn't use chapter-and-verse(admitedly arbitrary, but convenient) like ours and uses a different system-if so can it be "translated" so I can find it?

Deuteronomy chapter 29, the Hebrew label for this portion is called 'Nitzavim'

Because they "abandoned the Covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers"? Well haven't we all, though there are covenants and The Covenant and all. But again, haven't we all?
But still that's kind of "Christ-killer" sort of thing, isn't it? And isn't that rather God's business? I never understood why people consider it their job to make it more excruciating. But I suppose bullies always find an excuse wherever they can get it. And I never understood that either.
Fr. John Neuhaus once wrote that he was raised to believe in "Christ-killer" doctrinally but no one in his town dreamed of thinking that gave them a right to "avenge" Christ on the Jews in his town. Which shows there are different people and different choices, and the excuse doesn't always make the action.
So again, I never understood it.

Bear in mind the significance that this was foretold three millenia past, however your theological temprements run, facts are facts. He foretold great calamity, upheaval and suffering if the Jews do not abide by their side of the bargain. It was a choice that moses offered and Judaism is pre-eminently concerned with Justice (the law) the finding of a harmony. The Jews though are still bound to the covenant and G-d does not renig on an oath made within his essence. By the way if you read further in the dialogue Moses also speaks of Gods love for his nation that inevitably would lead to a miraculous return from exile....The fact that Israel exists takes this liturgy to even greater relevancy. There is some accurate stuff found  concerning anti semitism, however you decide to churn this information it cannot be ignored within the dialogue of the origins of Anti semitism.

As it seems to me the Jew has suffered much, but has learned much. Maybe the father must demand his son to go out in the world and find that necessary wisdom to transform and become a man. For whatever reason you may subscribe too the fact is that anti semitism  has not destroyed the Jews into the oblivion of history, but rather fortified them, they are still here and have now miraculously re-established statehood.

So what you see as melovolence may be the tough love which is the necessary consequence if there is to be  free choice, consequences shaped to ensure Jewish survival. More clearly, goals to a degree justify means, which is wholly dependent on the goal in which is under debate. As the saying goes "the purist gold must go through the fiery  furnace."

I don't know if I agree with this line of thinking I was just giving you some food for thought, but in the very least I assirt that  these considerations are legitimate concerning the text and the reality which history attests to.