An Especially Asinine Form Of Antisemitism

Every form of racism or discrimination based on lineage is irrational because it does not logically follow from race or familial descent that someone has or lacks any intellectual, moral, or personality traits.  With every form of such discrimination, there are errors and assumptions that almost always reduce down to stereotypes.  Jews can face stereotypes and other assumed errors like anyone else, ranging from the idea that they secretly manipulate the wealth of the world for selfish ends to the idea that Jews are morally culpable for the death of Jesus, a Jew.  Antisemitism, or discrimination against Jewish people (the word implies reference to all Semitic people, yet is reserved for the Jews), can take numerous forms, yet one of the most asinine is that springing from the notion that the Jews killed Jesus or that they are responsible for his death either way.

Some Jewish individuals were involved in the plot to have Jesus killed, but the Romans killed him, and it is the renowned Roman form of crucifixion which violates Yahweh's justice that killed him.  For the handful of Jews who did participate in the general process of slandering Jesus and demanding that he be killed, they betrayed almost every obligation of justice Yahweh demands of people.  They were so driven by malice that they wanted an innocent person to die (Matthew 26:59-63; see Leviticus 19:11 and Deuteronomy 19:15-19), and much more importantly, they did not care if the means of death was one of the absolute most dehumanizing, cruel processes ever to be inflicted on humans across recorded history, if not the most dehumanizing and cruel (something condemned in much less severe punishments, as in Deuteronomy 25:1-3).

Yahweh's laws, which many Jews of Christ's days only selectively followed, forbid such punishments as crucifixion for their inherent injustice on the Biblical worldview, even down to the irrationality of reserving crucifixion for foreigners or non-citizens (Leviticus 24:22), though the most egregious injustice is the universal injustice of the physical and psychological brutality of this execution method.  The Jews who wanted this to be done to anyone deserve damnation along with the Romans who carried it out on Jesus and others, but even then, this would only pertain to certain Jews of the time, and it has nothing to do with the worldview or deeds of Jews millennia later.  Like everyone else, modern Jews and those of other historical periods between the time of Christ and the present day could only deserve anger or punishment based on their own standing, not the standing of someone else of the same general ancestry.

There is no moral responsibility on the part of other Jews even in the days of Jesus for those who did not participate in schemes to have him crucified--or anyone else; though the logically necessary falsity of this antisemitism is knowable in full apart from specific examples, it is as erroneous as thinking all Germans, including those alive today, are guilty of the offenses of 1930-1940s Nazis or that white people born after American slavery are responsible for something that had nothing to do with them.  The sins of the Romans are not the sins of the Jews, and the sins of a handful of Jews from the first century AD are not the errors of other Jews of the era or of contemporary times.  Even for the Romans, members of what was likely the worst recorded society by far (the Nazis were tame by comparison in some ways), it was not another Roman's beliefs or deeds that determined their intellectual and moral standing.  It was their own.