The jews have been willing to push the envelope in the west and have take the fall-out--severe as it has sometimes been--as a group evolutionary strategy. When they have triggered retaliation in one place or another, it hasn't been possible to get all of them, because they're scattered, and they have kept evolving in their strategies to dominate and destroy what doesn't serve their ethnocentric interests.
Christianity (leaving off the old testament) has been diametrically opposed to this strategy. That is perhaps why it has been hated so much from the get-go.
