According to Osho, widespread hatred of Jews springs from others’ inferiority and envy toward their intelligence and rapid success—especially in money. After losing political power, Jewish genius focused on finance, creating wealth, education, and influence that provoke resentment among poor and rich alike. Reducing everything to commodity values further offends higher ideals. Freedom from hatred demands seeking values beyond money.
People feel small next to smart, successful people who focus on money, so they get jealous and angry; the way out is to value higher things than money.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Why are the jews hated everywhere in the world?
Because they are clever, intelligent. Nobody likes clever, intelligent people. One feels inferior, hence, the hatred. Adolf Hitler must have felt very inferior to Jews. He Was. He was almost idiotic, imbecilic. But he must have felt it tremendously -- this inferiority. And Jews have a certain intelligence, and because of that intelligence they become rich fast. Put them in any situation and sooner or later they will be on top. How can you avoid not hating them? They simply go directly to the top; they don't wait. And particularly about money, they are the cleverest people in the world. For a certain reason: because after Jesus' crucifixion, they lost all power -- all political power; Christianity became politically powerful. There was no way for the Jews to be politically powerful, so their whole mind turned to the second power -- money. They became focused on money. These are the…
Beloved Osho, when I look at the moments when I feel separate from you, from my love and the rest of existence, it is usually the shadows of comparison and jealousy; and when I go deeper I usually get in touch with a deep insecurity and the feeling of being inferior. Would you please guide me on how I can lift these shadows and how to feel free of them?
It was not enough to complete the book -- he is the only man whose every book is incomplete. He will just go up to a certain length, then suddenly he will come upon a greater idea... he will drop the old project, start on the new project. But even his incomplete books are proofs of tremendous genius. Philosophers have been wondering what would have been the result if he had completed them, because he was moving in such new dimensions, never touched; where no mariner has ever reached -- virgin lands, which no philosopher had ever bothered about. And his insight is so deep, that to understand him, you need a very high quality intelligence; otherwise you cannot understand what he is saying. Even Martin Heidegger became a follower of Adolf Hitler, because of that German inferiority. And Adolf Hitler gave the promise, and he managed the promise --…
Question: OSHO, WHY ARE THE JEWS SO NOTORIOUS FOR THEIR MONEY-GREED? Four Jewish mothers were talking, naturally of their sons. One said, "My son is studying to be a doctor, and when he graduates he will make $50,000 a year." Said the second, "My son is studying dentistry, and when he graduates he will make $100,000 a year." The third said, "My son is studying to be a psycho-analyst, and when he graduates he will make $200,000 a year." The fourth one remained silent. The other ones asked her, "And what about your son?" "He is studying to become a rabbi," she answered. "And how much does a rabbi make?" "$10,000 a year." "$10,000? Is this a job for a Jewish boy?" Gropestein's clothing store stood on New York's Lower East Side. One day, Gropestein went out for lunch and left Salter, his new salesman, in charge.
Beloved Osho, are all minds jewish?
Abhiyana, there is some truth in it, it is so. To be a Jew has nothing to do with any race. Jewishness is really a quality -- the quality that calculates, the quality that thinks always in terms of business. That's why the other day I said to you that it is really unbelievable how the Italians could snatch the greatest business from the Jews. It is really unbelievable, it is a miracle, because the Vatican is the greatest business on the earth. All the Rockefellers and all the Morgans and all the Fords put together still fall short. Jewishness is a quality; it can be found in a Hindu, it can be found in a Jaina, it can be found in a Christian, in a Buddhist. It is the quality of calculation. It can become great intelligence, it can also become great cunningness -- both alternatives are there. Jews…
Question: OSHO, HOW NOT TO BE A JEW? Gyan Deva, IT IS REALLY DIFFICULT not to be a Jew because to be a Jew is not only to be part of a certain culture, religion, tradition -- there are Jews everywhere, in Hindus, in Mohammedans, in Christians -- to be a Jew is more a psychology than a religion. Calculativeness is Jewishness, always to be calculating about life, always thinking in terms of business, in terms of money, in terms of profit. That's what I call Jewishness. All Jews are not Jews and all non-Jews are not non-Jews either. Jewishness is a far wider phenomenon. Hindus are confined to the Hindus, Mohammedans ar confined to the Mohammedans -- Jews are spilled all over. It is something psychological, far more psychological than cultural. It is easy not to be a Hindu; you have just to get rid of your concepts.