So does that mean they think of themselves special compared to other humans?

When you interact with a Jew is it anything different from interacting with "our kind"?

I know during the times when my country was under the Unties States rule, we took in some Jews from Europe from some kind of covert operation or something and those people settled here. They were called - Sephardi Jews - who came to be known as “Manilaners”

During the Second World War, the government offered refuge to approximately 1,300 Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi persecution of Jews in Europe. It was further deepened in 1947 when the country supported the establishment of the State of Israel, being the only country in Asia to do so.

Here is the movie about it.

Youtube Video

Here if you want to read about it.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/little-known-philippines-wwii-rescue-of-jews-was-capped-by-us-interference/

Here is a short video of a documentary of the journey of those Jews who where still young then. The video shows Japanese bombardment of the city and how the American, Canadian and British residents were rounded up but the German Jews were mistaken as allies by the Japanese all before when the United State retook it.

Youtube Video

I somehow understand the hatred about Jews, but have they really done anything that harms other people?

While I'm sure that some Jewish people somewhere did something bad to someone, that's true of all peoples, I'm sure.

People hate Jewish people because they are an insular minority that, throughout history, has refused to integrate or convert to the majorities around them. This makes them an Other, and Others are easy targets for hatred.

Also, humans generally have a hard time conceiving that historical events, on a large scale, are random and irrational. Instead, magical thinking leads people to believe that events aren't actually random, but instead are happening because of some cabal or illuminati guiding the seemingly-but-not-really random events. It's the same human tendency to put order onto chaos that leads people to believe in Q-Anon, Lizard People, or that Illuminati.