In ancient times, they hated us because we would not assimilate and go away
In Christian times, they feared us because we were stubbornly different
In the Middle Ages, they blamed us for any calamity they could not explain
In enlightened times, they resented us for excelling in the few jobs we were allowed to hold
In modernity, they despised the success of our elites and blamed us for society's ills
In Israel, they smeared us as settler colonists who interrupted the dominion of Islam over the region
In 2025, they branded us as the all-powerful, privileged, white, racist, genocidal, child-killing agents of the West
We have always been the convenient other,
the foil,
the scapegoat,
onto which the cynical and ignorant can project their frustrations,
absolving the majority of blame
