In this paper, I will survey the cause, process, and result of Jew’s persecution from the anti-judaism, and then, I will seek the solution of these problems. The main incident that Jews became scapegoat of anti-judaism is the Black Death, Crusade, Pogrom, and the Holocaust.
In the Medieval Europe, when the Black Death broke out, Jews were persecuted because of the rumor that they put poison in food and springs. During the crusade, many Jews were raped and massacred by the crusade soldiers. As we can see the Holocaust, six million Jews were killed by Nazi.
In the social whirlpool like war and violence, Jews who accumulated wealth became easy targets by others. The suffering and persecution that Jews experienced was a dark shadow forced by a society. Jews as a minority who remained on the fringes of society suffered from innocent victim every time that the society was drawn into a whirlpool.
The main cause that Jews became victims was the sentiment of antisemitism - from the early church to spread throughout European society. The sentiment of antisemitism was interlinked with religious, economical, and cultural causes. These were two reasons that middle age people hate Jews and blame them. First, they crucified Jesus Christ on the cross. Second, they refused to convert to Christianism.
During Medieval times, the Jews recognized as a usurer became scapegoat of persecution by falsely accused of bloodsucker, after modern times these sentiment erupted as antisemitism. Antisemitism made Jews become inductor of all evil and effect the mechanism to justify their violence on them. However, these ideologies is only denigration and repugnance toward the others based on the superstitious world-view and religious prejudice.
We should make efforts to prevent discriminations and violence towards minority, likewise anti-semitism. To achieve this goal, first, we should overcome the ideology by dissolving it’s fiction and illusion. Second, we should expand the compassion for the weak. Third, we should respond for other’s appeal with responsibility. Lastly, we should make efforts to establish the value of hospitality in our community.