From Mount Sinai to October 7 |
On this Shavuot, 3,338 years ago, a people unlike any other in human history was born at Mount Sinai. Not a people built around territory, dynasty, or military power, but around a book, learning, and faith passed down from generation to generation despite exiles, persecutions, and wars.
Here begins the answer to the oldest question in Jewish history: why are the Jews specifically hated?
Antisemitism is a phenomenon unparalleled in human history. For thousands of years, it has crossed empires, religions, continents, and ideologies. It appeared in pagan, Christian, and Muslim societies; among kings, revolutionaries, nationalists, and progressives. Fascists accused Jews of communism. Communists accused them of capitalism. Poor Jews provoked contempt; wealthy Jews provoked envy. Jews in exile were accused of dual loyalty; Jews in their own land became “colonialists.”
The pattern is clear: in every generation, in every political reality, and at every historical moment, a new reason was found to hate the Jews.
In this sense, antisemitism is not just another ordinary........