Christians did plenty of conquering and colonizing. The result? Over a hundred countries are Christian-majority.
Muslims: same thing. The first five hundred years of Islam were all about spreading the word via invasions, conquest, and discriminatory laws that pressures locals to convert. The result? Thirty or forty nations are Muslim majority.
That means that when (say) Indonesian leaders make life miserable for the Christian minority in Papua, no one says "See how Muslims are!". Indonesia is one Muslim country of many, so no one blames "all Muslims" for Indonesia's policies.
Or when (say) Brazil lets it street-children starve or get murdered with impunity, no one says "ah, see what Christians are like! Those scumbags - let's beat up any Chrostians we see."
But Jews - who lacked the lust for conquering - have only Israel. So Anything the Israeli government does, Christians and Muslims can shriek "See how Jews act! Let's hate us some Jews!"
This lets them suppress the historical reasons why there are only fifteen million Jews - and billions each of Muslims and Christians. (But gosh them handful of Jews sure do run the world!)
It lets them ignore the fact that Christian and Muslim militancy has grabbed up most of the world - and happily killed millions of Jews who had no defense and posed no threat. And it has been this perpetual abuse that finally caused some Jews to want a land - one tiny land - of their own, and makes them desperate to defend it.
Anti-Semitism: a strange affliction in which conquerors and their descendants go through weird gymnastics in order to ignore the blood on their hands and keep blaming their historic victims.
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