Living as a people apart, Jews were always suspect.

In order to preserve their separate identity, Judaism demanded scholarship. Jews studied their religious texts and that interest in scholarship extended to medicine and other fields where knowledge was power, and power translated into economic success... and success triggers envy.

Historically, the ability for Jews to read and write, made them "useful" to the nobility of Europe, but also caused the peasants of those countries to hate them, since they would keep "the records" of what the peasants owed the nobility. They were also viewed as heretics.

This experience is not unlike that of the "overseas" Chinese throughout Asia or to a lesser extent the Indians in east Africa where wealthy Europeans used the Chinese and Indians to manage their properties in the various colonies of Europe spread throughout Asia and Africa.

Chinese, Indian and Jewish cultures emphasize scholarship, and it has served them well from an economic perspective, but that success has given rise to bigotry from the indigenous people who are generally of a different race and religion.

Unlike the Chinese and Indians, the Jews had their land taken from them centuries earlier and yet as far as their religion is concerned, God would lead them back to Israel someday.

When after WW2, the decision by the British to give half of the area then known as the Palestinian territory back to the Jews, they felt God was leading them back to the land promised to them as descendants of Abraham.

After centuries of being forced to live in ghettos and being the subject of discrimination, God through the British was returning the "promised land" to them.

Keep in mind, the land never belonged to the Palestinians, it was part of the Ottoman Empire and belonged to the Turks, the Palestinians were simply residing there. After WW1, it belonged to England under the same right of conquest that it had come to belong to the Ottomans.

Bigotry towards a group of people is not something particularly unique in Europe or the world. Besides the Jews, similar feelings towards the Roma in Europe have existed for more than 800 years. Nor is Europe the only place where people have experienced centuries of bigotry...

The tribal nature of humans produces hatred and envy. "Tribes" have fought over land for centuries, again nothing new. Nor is it new, that when a group of people lives among another group and does not assimilate with them, that bigotry emerges in time towards that group. Even more so, when that group experiences financial success.

Until humans can learn to respect one another as individuals, group identity will breed bigotry and that is sad. While governments would prefer to see a degree of assimilation (the melting pot) in order to blur the differences that breed bigotry, many identity groups embrace separatism. So, I don't expect to see antisemitism go away, even though I condemn it.