1. Yentl said:

What is it exactly that you think the deportation of Jews over so many years in so many different places indicates?

Over the past 1000 years, the leading causes of anti-Semitism are the shitty and hateful behaviors, attitudes, and policies of some Jews who then ruin it for the rest. You know, Tob Shebbe Goyim Harog and all that. Being so very well documented, the talmud and rambam's pathological bigotry and rabid hatred of non-Jews is kinda hard to gloss over. Jews want to jerk others off because they don't see them as humans, and think it is pleasing to their God to do so. Then they want to whine and play victim when the host population, most often kind and generous people who were happy to let Jews in and then got fucked by same, kick their sorry asses out. This is a healthy reaction, and one would have thought that Jews would have wised up at some point. Guess not. The truth sucks, but there it is. Stop playing victim and try being decent neighbors for once in history. The results might surprise you.

2. BobW said:

To be fair-especially to the many new participants here-forced migrations also involved many non-Jewish groups.

The first modern "New World" deportation (actually an "ethnic cleansing") was the mass expulsion of the Acadians from the Nova Scotia area of Canada. I believe it was then called New France. The Anglo solution was to force them out, take their possessions and burn their villages. Longfellow wrote the poem "Evangeline" about this. I think James Fennimore Cooper wrote a book on this expulsion. (?"Last of the Mohegians"?).

Down south here in the States, it wasn't always Christian against Christian. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 expelled the non believers to land west of the Mississippi River (until oil was discovered in Oklahoma Territory and then there were additional forced relocations).

The Romanov tradition of course was practiced by the Hohenzollen decendents. The one percent of Germany's overall population that produced 29 percent of Germany's Nobel Laurets met the ovens. Some did flee on their own initiative, eg Freud (to London), Einstein (to USA).

A sense of symetry obliges me to mention a recent forced migration. After the first Gulf War, Kuwait expelled many of it's Arab workers.

Modern representative Parliamentary governments can minimize forced migrations.

Kol tuv,
BobW

3. Ted Belman said:

Yentle talks too much. Her description of the attidue of some Jews is way over the top and not true. "Being so very well documented, the talmud and rambam's pathological bigotry and rabid hatred of non-Jews is kinda hard to gloss over. "

While it is true that Jews believed that they should not mingle with gentiles, it was not because "Jews want to jerk others off because they don't see them as humans, and think it is pleasing to their God to do so." It was because they did not want to assimulate or be "Hellenized". History records that it was the gentiles who considered the Jews not human and not the other way around. The world allows many cultures to maintain themselves like the Amish or native Americans without nary a critical comment. Only the Jew is criticized for maintaining itself because Christian theology for two thousand years expected and wanted Jews to disappear.

In spite of this desire to avoid assimulation the Jews have interated themselves in all the host cultures and made impressive contributions to the benefit of the world.