To be fair, everyone (except white people, who had it mostly beaten out of them) is Tribe First.
Probably especially Jews, though, because of the whole Diaspora™ thing. They also raise their kids to view themselves as Jews and Jews only. It's very circular; they're paranoid about persecution - it gets played up for victim points, but the paranoia is absolutely real - so they tribe up super hard, and become outsiders in the countries they claim to be members of, which leads to persecution down the line, because they're not actually loyal to their host countries.
Do not discount the Theological aspect of their insular ethnic "religion," they marinate from birth in the belief that they are God's chosen people, and that the rest of us are goyim. They really do believe that, and in many ways this explains why they act the way they do to their host nations.
The wildest part of the whole Chosen People narrative is that other people are also expected to believe it, and often do. It's not that unusual for a peoples' religion to proclaim themselves the chosen people. It's wild for others not in that group to bully and try to destroy you for not thinking the outgroup are God's Chosen.
I have no problem with the Jews thinking they're Chosen and special. Go wild. But I don't have to believe it, and I'm not an antisemite for going 'no, I don't think that's how this works.'
I'm not hateful for not thinking I'm cattle in the eyes of God, before the Chosen People. We're not doing that.
Jews the world over are Jews first, everything else distant second, and this is why they get expelled, every single time.
To be fair, everyone (except white people, who had it mostly beaten out of them) is Tribe First.
Probably especially Jews, though, because of the whole Diaspora™ thing. They also raise their kids to view themselves as Jews and Jews only. It's very circular; they're paranoid about persecution - it gets played up for victim points, but the paranoia is absolutely real - so they tribe up super hard, and become outsiders in the countries they claim to be members of, which leads to persecution down the line, because they're not actually loyal to their host countries.
Do not discount the Theological aspect of their insular ethnic "religion," they marinate from birth in the belief that they are God's chosen people, and that the rest of us are goyim. They really do believe that, and in many ways this explains why they act the way they do to their host nations.
The wildest part of the whole Chosen People narrative is that other people are also expected to believe it, and often do. It's not that unusual for a peoples' religion to proclaim themselves the chosen people. It's wild for others not in that group to bully and try to destroy you for not thinking the outgroup are God's Chosen.
I have no problem with the Jews thinking they're Chosen and special. Go wild. But I don't have to believe it, and I'm not an antisemite for going 'no, I don't think that's how this works.'
I'm not hateful for not thinking I'm cattle in the eyes of God, before the Chosen People. We're not doing that.