The Jews...

Because of the constant obsession with "the Jews", I felt that they are a race of Semitic people that needed to be studied. By analysing their creation stories, they can be traced to originating in modern-day southern Iraq. How & when they separated from other Semitic people (i. e. Arabs), I don't know. But at some time along their history they settled in Egypt because of a drought & because of growing numbers of the Israelites coming to Egypt, they were decisively enslaved. The Israelites became slaves of the Hamitic people of Ancient Egypt, cousins of Semitic people through biblical accounts. Jews (a name they got after going to Canaan/Israel) were originally called Hebrews or Israelites & Hebrew (Habiru) being a derogatory term in ancient Egyptian meaning "outcasts" fell away in favour of "Israelites'. 

Escaping slavery, they fled Egypt led by Moses & settled on the land of the Canaanites. There they forged their own kingdom. But over the years, they would be conquered by the Greeks, Persians, Romans & others. The last Israelite dynasty to rule Israel/Judaea were the Hasmoneans if I'm not mistaken. At one point, Israelites were brought to Babylon to become slaves once again. 

They were virtually a nation with no state for a large part of their history until the founding of modern Israel, being most famous as slaves & subjects of other empires in their history. Being that they were scattered by the many nations who conquered the Levant, they ended up in Morocco, Britain, Russia, Italy, Germany etc. where they were persecuted on several occasions throughout European history. Now, some of the richest people in the world & some of South Africa's richest billionaires are Jews. What is so special about Jews other than the fact that the world has bought into a sect of their faith in Christianity? I think the fact that their fatherland is so close to three continents - Israel & Israelites have had a history in all three Old World continents of Asia, Africa & Europe so become some sort of reference point for all humanity & not East Africans / Ethiopians / the Turkana people of Lake Turkana. 

Now, we find that a lot of the vessels that shipped Africans to the New World in the Transatlantic Slave Trade were Jewish owned. I've read that the colonisation of the Americas was to prevent the spread of Islam as a latter-day effort of the European Crusades to defend the Holy Land against Persians/Muslims. Knowing that the first slaves used by the Portuguese on an island off the west coast of Africa were Jews who all died there, why were Jewish-owned vessels used in the Transatlantic Slave Trade? 

I feel that the obsession of Europe with "the Jews" has led them to perpetrate unnecessary & outrageous crimes against humanity. Jews are no more human than any other group in the world. If they are given special treatment for merely having an unfortunate history why isn't the same done for the victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade & victims of colonisation in general? 

The piece of history that allowed me to trace Jewish origin to Mesopotamia: 

Yes, Utnapishtim is Noah.