Why do people hate the Jews?

I've often wondered about this.

My opinion is that it is because the Jews don't integrate. They will settle within some other culture, and then insist on maintaining their own culture, beliefs, traditions, etc, rather than to assimilate. (Well, obviously, if they DID assimilate completely they'd no longer be Jews).

1. This creates a condition of 'otherness'. There are 'us' and there are 'them'. The moment this happens, it always and inevitably happens that blame gets shifted to the 'others' - exacerbated when one group is hugely and visibly more successful than the other.

2. The refusal to integrate, and to accept others, also creates an impression of elitism. "We don't want to be part of you, and we don't want you to become part of us..." the subtext being "...because we are better than you." This always generates resentment. Or to use a Nietzscheism - ressentiment. I suspect that ressentiment is the most dangerous and most powerful of collective emotions in existence, all the more for being almost completely unrecognised as being so.

3. And then lastly there is a definite perception of a common Jewish personality, which is not all that flattering. A whiny, entitled, manipulative sort of personality. And, with regards to what I think of as an inherent Northern-European mindset, I feel that there is definitely a difference in perception with regard to what it means to be 'honest'. In dealing with Jews, I suspect that situations often arise where a Northern-European sort of person feels that he has been done in, in some kind of way, due to what he would perceive as a situation which is not entirely honest. 

(Maybe a purely metaphoric example can be made of "fine print". Northern-Europeans are not that much into reading the "fine print", because they would trust others to be so transparent that all the implications of some circumstance would be openly visible in the "main text". Whereas a Jew may tend to hide a bunch of clauses in the "fine print", and not regard it as dishonest because, well, it is there - you should've read it. Meanwhile, the Jew is perfectly aware of the Northern-European's attitude to "fine print" and deliberately utilised it to his advantage).

So no, I think the reason why some people do not like Jews (I am emphatically not one of them, by the way) are acutely complex and not nearly as facile as what they are routinely made out to be. And to be honest, I feel that the Jews are, themselves, predominantly to blame for this. In fact, the very act of claiming "you (the entire world) hate us, because you are bad people... remember holocaust ..." is a quintessentially Jewish thing to do.

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To relate more closely to the point of the original article:
What MICAH HALPERN identifies as the current 'Jew-hatred' is not actually 'Jew-hatred' at all. It is the Marxist-inspired hatred of Western Civilization in general, in cahoots with hatred of Western Civilization by those not part of it - in itself no less driven by ressentiment.