Why do so many people hate Jews?

I'm asking in all seriousness, I want to know just what the fuck is up with the Jews and the people who hate them.

Why exactly do they care about one shitty piece of land with absolutely no natural resources so much?  If they really believe God created the entire world then any piece of land should be just as holy as any other, promised or not.

Why are there so many nations that refuse to accept that Isreal exists or has a right to exist?  Really, why the fuck do they even care?  If it's about the 'holy land' that has absolutely no value whatesoever then they can go fuck themselves.  If it's something else, please explain.

Y'all get it wrong. Heck, even the Bible gets it wrong. As far as archaeology is aware, civilization in Israel started with various assorted Bronze Age villages, nomads, and an Egyptian outpost (Megiddo, the famous Armageddon) or two. Egypt didn't hold onto the Levant all that long. (The Bible mentions the Hebrews being slaves in Egypt for a few centuries; in any case, other histories are rather lacking in mention, but Megiddo is known to have been abandoned.) Meanwhile, the Bible also refers to the first Patriarch (Abraham) as having set up a tabernacle and a camp in Hebron (not too far from Cana'anite Asherah and Ba'al worshippers, as it turns out, although I think the Bible let out that detail) and somehow, out of this quagmire, the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah arose, with Cana'anites and Phoenicians (which were Cana'anites by a different name) living near the sea and Israelites (ancestors of many, although not necessarily all, Jews) living inland. Israel was a small and wimpy country at the crossroads of mighty empires, and it might have wound up a historical footnote had not someone had the bright idea of codifying the Israelites' mythology into a book or two, and then ensuring that everyone remembered and followed it. As it was, the land got overrun by Babylonians, Syrian-Greeks, and Romans, who occupied the land.

This is when the second major reason for all the current uproar over Israel came about, as well as the main reason for others hating Jews to begin with. Someone by the name of Yeshua, later rendered "Jesus" in Greek, talked up a storm with various Jewish sectarian notions that apparently pissed off the establishment (especially when he made a scene in Jerusalem), whereupon the Jewish authorities decided this Jewish sectarian was trouble and the Romans agreed. So the Romans hung him up on a cross, and a new religion was begotten. Jewish Christians got into a spat with other Jews because the others preferred to follow tradition, and they carried this quarrel to other lands. Shortly after, Jews got into a quarrel with Rome over the deification of emperors, which led to the Temple set afire and Jews getting kicked out of Jerusalem (and helping to expand the already-present Jewish Diaspora in the process). Judaism never forgot where it began, however: in Israel and vicinity.

St. Paul and the Apostles, meanwhile, took Jewish stories and mixed them with pagan stories and then vigorously advertised, among other things, the land of Israel (however inadvertently they did so). Eventually, Jewish and Christian stories made their way down to Araby, and so Muhammad of the Quraish tribe heard of their tales, adopting them into his new religion. Islam took over the land of Israel: an act which was just asking for trouble from Christians. So Crusaders came over, killing Jews on the ground that they "killed Christ", even though the original executioners were long gone and buried themselves. They looted Jerusalem and committed atrocities. So Muslims harbored a deep hatred of "Crusaders" from that point on - including Jews trying to take back their land, a hatred that Nazi Germany was all too eager to stoke in the 1940s.

Oh yeah, the British DID blunder in the 20th century occupation of "Palestine". They couldn't help it. The Arabs and Jews had clashing desires: the Arabs didn't want their land taken, the Jews wanted their land back, and both groups had practically the same land in mind. So the British essentially banned Jewish immigration. (That's right: ships with Zionists coming to Israel were fired upon and their passengers sent to Cyprus in detention camps, at least in the immediately post-WWII years.) Furthermore, the Jews were so harrowed by their encounter with the Nazis - and other countries' refusal to let Jewish refugees in - that they vowed to build their own country, defend it, and let any Jew in that wanted in. So they did so, and that's what this current nonsense is about.