Sick Jews
I doubt that there is any national or religious group that produces the percentage of people who aid those who wish to hurt, let alone kill, that group as do Jews.
When one observes Jews who defend those whose raison d'etre is the annihilation of the one Jewish country on Earth, you have to ask: Why are there no others like them? Were there blacks who defended slavery? Were there Armenians who defended the Turkish mass murder of fellow Armenians during World War I?
It is true that every nation has produced people who work against their nation -- particularly during time of war. Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian leader who collaborated with the Nazi occupiers of Norway, is perhaps the best known: The very name "Quisling" is widely used as a synonym for traitor. But even Quisling identified more with fellow Norwegians than Israel-hating Jews identify with fellow Jews.
It turns out that the Jews who side with those who wish to eradicate the one Jewish state and slaughter as many Jews as possible are truly unique.
It is this uniqueness that makes these Jews difficult to explain. Nevertheless, it is important to at least attempt to do so.
Here are two explanations.
1. Psychological Explanations
As a result of the Holocaust, virtually every Jew -- whether or not they had family members who were murdered by the Nazis and their non-German collaborators -- suffers from a form of PTSD. Few non-Jews know this, and even fewer can identify with this condition. So, let me explain.
Between 1941 and 1945, one of the most civilized nations in the world -- the nation that gave the world the greatest music ever written; the greatest single national source of great scientists; the nation that produced Protestant Christianity, the mother of modern liberal democracies, the primary source (along with the Hebrew Bible) of the American experiment in freedom and of the anti-slavery movement -- murdered two out of every three Jews in Europe. Jewish women, babies and elderly Jews were slated for death just as much as were young men. Jews were not merely persecuted or enslaved; they were targeted for death in the largest and most systematic genocide in recorded history. And with very few exceptions, the world's nations did nothing to help the Jews of Europe. Even those who managed to flee were, in too many cases, denied safe harbor in other countries, a fact that continues to underlie the need for one Jewish state in the world.
Inevitably, this has had a profound impact on the Jewish psyche. Virtually every Jew since 1945 has, consciously or subconsciously, feared another Holocaust. In fact, long before the Holocaust, at the Passover Seder Jews recited (and still do): "In every generation they arise to annihilate us." Note that the words are not "to persecute us" or "to enslave us" but "to annihilate us." Jew-hatred has always been unique in that it is an annihilationist hatred.
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