Jews: Why the animosity towards them?

[Spartan198]

Even though we do often discriminate based on skin color, it's not like we were definitely going to do so as we don't discriminate based on whether someone's earlobes are attached or unattached and rarely on eye color. We just have to make skin color as insignificant as eye color.

In my view,skin color already is as insignificant as eye color,or hair color (though I do have a certain fondness for redheads in particular,but that's not exactly a discriminatory thing...),religion,and so forth.

[Tribesman]

I'm not sure what the original reason for this law is, since it's been a long time since I attended Temple.

There is a sound basis for the old law , even if the husband is Jewish it doesn't guarantee that he is the father of the child .
However the process of giving birth is a pretty good indication of who the mother of the child is

[KrooK]

As Ludwik Gumplowicz wrote into XIX century
there is no clear race nowadays. Races mixed themselves - Jews could be good example, same like Poles, Russians, French and Britons.

[carbz]

race is a political concept and battleground more than anything, but as a concept is of no less relevance because of that.

Which brings us back to why jews were persecuted, they have long viewed themselves as "the chosen" and aggressively defended their own, which pisses people off.