WHO are the JEWS?

ISRAEL

The Seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

The book of Genesis in the Old Testament (or the Torah) is the record of how GOD chose out and created a nation of people to represent HIM to the world. This nation would first grow up in bondage under Egyptian rule, but would then be lead out by Moses to receive the Law of GOD from the very hand of GOD at Mt. Saini in northern Arabia. They would then be organized into 12 unique tribes and wander the Arabian wilderness for a few decades then travel north into Canaan and conquer the Nephilim infested Philistines by GOD's direct command. But the Israelites would fail to kill all the Nephilim resulting in Giants escaping to live in Europe, Britain, and eventually the Americas and the far ends of the Earth. Learn a bit more on this from my GIANTS page. 

But as for the Israelites, by 1500 B.C. they had pretty much settled what would eventually become known as Palestine and made it their home. It would remain so till the descending, and by then split nation, descendants of the Israelite tribes had all been conquered and taken away captive by the Assyrians and then the Babylonians in the late 500's B.C. The Jews would remain in captivity till Babylon became Persian land and were then released from captivity by Cyrus the Great. But according to the O. T. book of Ezra, only the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi were accounted for. The other 10 tribes never returned home nor would they keep their Israeli faith and practices; instead wandering into and settling the then empty lands of the European continent. So the 10 tribes of Israel would eventually become the European tribes of the Danish, the Jutes, the Goths, the Franks, the Saxons, and so on. 

But meanwhile back home in the land of Israel, the remaining 3 tribes took on the name of the dominant tribe of Judah and became known from then on as the Jews. The Jews would rebuilt their city and temple and even after being taken over by the Greeks and then the Romans, would remain steadfast and stubborn as always. Even after the God Man Jesus came and claimed to be their Messiah; the Jews largely rejected him - had Pilot crucify Him - and then began a revolt that would result in their permanent exile from their homeland a full 2nd time by the year 130 A.D. But those Jews who recognized the fulfilment of their old Law and prophets accepted Jesus and joined their gentile brothers in the new faith soon called Christianity.

But from then on Jews would take a second place seat so to speak in world religion as GOD set them aside metaphorically speaking and focused His deity energies on growing and spreading His Church. But the stubborn Jews would go on believing that their Messiah was still a future coming person and would live - once again spread out all over the Earth - as they always had. Only now they had no temple or holy city to return to. being Jewish up until 1948 A.D. was a rather sad and thankless life to live. But they persevered and endure even unto this day. Obvious post WWII the Jews then began a new era of positivity and prosperity as they were finally allowed to return home to Palestine (even though it had by then been claimed by those that had moved into the long abandoned land. So the resident Palestinians had to move out or stay put as the Israelis moved in. This forced relocation and integration has caused many disagreements and fighting to be sure.

But that is just the cliff-notes summary of the Jews. We have yet to actually go down deep with the many historical and practical reasons for why the Jews get so much hate. So let's get to that then.