It happens during the time of economical crisis, depression, inability to realize ambitions, inability to influence the course of some events. And it often results in anti-Semitic moods of certain social groups: mostly radical working-class youth. We see this tendency now as the economical recession had penetrated into many spheres of life and touched nearly everyone, in addition there exist a conflict in Israel between Israelites and Palestinians, which still has no reference to the essence of the problem, but is used as a justification.
The Jew I am belongs to a traumatized generation. We have antennas. Better yet, we are antennas," he said. "If we tell you that the signals we receive are disturbing, that we are alarmed... people had better listen." says Elie Weisel (from Wiesel: Anti-Semitism Increase, article)
Most of Jewish organizations in Europe insist to make protective legislature, use educational instruments in order to protect Jewish minorities from different forms of anti-Semitism and possible violence. Understandably a person has to be forced to escape from alienation, he has to be forced to accept general norms and beliefs as a member of democratic society, but what has to be really done is nearly impossible to do. The person has to be liberated from the chains that imprison his mind, his perception of the world and which lock his options to freedom. Anti-Semitism is one of such chains that paralyze human mind; it's not a simple stereotype. Even though it's often compared to racism, it has something more in it than a simple physical dislike; it includes mental dislike, hostility and mistrust. Its origins are in narrow-mind, philistine morality and lack of social and international experience especially in mono-national societies: Poland, Russia, Greece, and Britain.
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Psychology of the Bigot -- the Anti-Semite vs. The Racist In "Anti-Semite and Jew," the existentialist philosopher John Paul Sartre, a gentile, analyzed the psychology of an anti-Semitic individual who hates Jews. He did so from the perspective of an outsider to the group he was examining over the course of his essay, as well as attempting to plumb the psychology of the 'insider' of this group. In "The Fire
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