Reply #41: Its not a single phenomenon...

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The Palestinians dislike the Israelis because they came and took their land. The Nazis disliked the Jews because they were a mercantile minority that the Nazis saw as exploitative and parasitic.

Two entirely different phenomena. The second situation resembles numerous other places and times where mercantile minorities have been expelled or killed by populist leaders - for example, the Indians in Uganda under Idi Amin, or the riots against Chinese in Malaysia, or the Indians in Fiji, or the Christians in the Ottoman empire.

Its worth noting that the one place where anti-Semitism did not occur was in India, as India already had plenty of mercantile minorities (Jains, Parsees and high-caste Hindus) who by and large continued to dominate trade in India. Essentially, Jews never rose to a sufficiently high social status that they could be resented.

If the Israel situation resolves itself it may well herald the end of anti-Semitism. About the only place where Jews still constitute a mercantile minority is the United States, although this is gradually disappearing on account of intermarriage and also the rising Chinese and Indian professional classes.

Other than as a legacy position of the fringe, neo-fascist grouplets I would expect anti-Semitism as a social force would then disappear.