The Death of Christ at the hands of the Jewish Leaders of His Day has never really been the reason for hatred of the Jew. It has been an "excuse" one tossed out there to justify hatred of a group of people - which you quickly discern that it is an "illogical" justification simply because it was God's Will for Jesus to die to be sacrificed for the Salvation of All Mankind. Bigotry will and does often call upon holy writing to justify itself. That is the rational part of the human animal attempting to rationalize loathing of Other. Fear and hatred of Other did serve a purpose way back when our species had to compete for everything - today it is a hang over which with the development of reasoning is contrary to our species success. Although many do use their ability to reason to over come their animal (basic) instincts such as fear or hatred, there are still many others who use their reasoning ability to justify their particular angst at X group of people. We see this rationalization of hatred in every instance where an excuse is drawn up - most often made up, many times based on half-truths and myth-conceptions drawn up from earlier times. No it is rarely logical when we test these "theories" or "justifications for hatred" - this is why those who are tolerant are always frustrated at what should be a clear line of reasoning to see the "flaws" of intolerance. The Jews did not kill Jesus. The Jewish leaders of the day petitioned for the execution of Jesus by the ruling government (Rome). Roman officials had to dig for a reason, this is why Jesus is condemned as "King of the Jews" not as messiah. It was a death sentence to rebel against Rome - to claim to be King of the Jews or King of the World was treason and punishable by death. Being Messiah was offensive to the Jewish leaders (priests) however they were not allowed to punish it without Rome's permission. The Crime of the Jewish Priests (not the people) was bearing false witness - if that, Because Jesus did take the dangerous route of declaring Himself the Lord of the world, the Future King of Mankind which in those days was well known to be an offense punishable by death. With that understanding we see that hatred of the Jew for killing Jesus is not justified, logic fails at the facts. Aside from God's ordained will for Jesus in the first place.

people condemn Jews for killing HIM(I thought this way myself for a long time) but alot of Jews believed...Actually, the Jewish High Priests wanted HIM killed (lose their power to HIM and could not do away with the Old Covenant Laws). God does not condemn for the "killing" or "sacrifice", that was pre-ordained,it is prophecy that HIS own city would deny HIM, that was why HE wept over Jerusalem, HIS home town. God would forgive even the High Priests if they would have Accepted HIM(Nicodemus, he almost did)... The "rejection" or "denial" is where God will condemn us all..Jews and Gentiles...Peter denied HIM 3 times, but asked forgiveness..Judas could have been forgiven too, except he chose to commit suicide..Barbara

It's strange when you seek an answer to a puzzling question like the one you've asked it's as if you posted it in the Buddhism section or everyone's busy with Christmas. But if someone asked something like 'did Jesus die for you?' there would be lots of Amens, mutual congratulations and points being awarded like confetti. I suspect the whole Jesus story has been thrown into confusion by bolting the salvation bit onto it, a bit that is not part of the story. Contrast that with the story of Jonah. Here, salavation is not bolted on, it is not read into the story, it IS an integral part of the story. To save the whole ship and everybody on it Jonah willingly offers to sacrifice himself. When he goes overboard the sea calms down and all are saved. If salvation was meant to be part of the Jesus story that's the sort of line it would have followed. It's simple, a high priest would have alerted people to expect 'the lamb' to appear any day now. Jesus would have declared himself to be 'the lamb'. The sacrifice would have taken place. End of story. Given the messed up story a 'clever' Christian might try to squeeze out of the tight corner of your question by saying, as some of them do, that Jesus had two natures, human and god. (Talk about creating one confusion to explain your way out of another) Salvation, they would argue, required the death of the god and it is not that death they blame the Jews for but the death of the poor human Jesus. How's that?

The bible condemns sin, not man. Jesus was declared by the last OT prophet John to be the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. Hence fulfilling what was promised through the prophets. Salvation was promised through the sufferring of a servant from the beginning of God's revelation. That promise is totally fulfilled in Jesus. Man can claim wha he likes but God has revealed.

People do condemn Jews. But not Christians. We knew He had to die, he said he was going to die, the Old Testament said he was going to die by crucifixion, etc... But we don't thank the Jews. They didn't do anything... God was running that show.