“The enemies of the Jewish people, in justification of their own conduct, have pointed out many times that, from the very beginning of its history, this people had found no sympathy among the nations. Instead, they say, Israel has met with nothing but hostility and hatred throughout the world. Israel’s enemies think this is sufficient reason for all future generations to cultivate and to transmit to their descendants the old hatred which the nations have long harbored against the Jews…it was not at the people of Israel, but at the ideals of Zion that this hatred had been aimed from the very beginning…the haters of the ideals represented by Zion became the enemies of the Jews.”
Rabbi Hirsch on Psalms, §ii, 392 (as copied from “Secular By Design”)