I am not sure I agree with you there@SharonEllis.
Of course The Jews have been exeptionalised for being Jews time and time again throughout history.
But so too have Muslims have been exeptionalised for being Muslim time and time again throughout history, for example. They were a targeted group around the end of the Ottoman Empire, with serious efforts made to ethnically cleansed them from Bosnia over many decades. They tired that again in the '90s. The Chinese government constantly targets then, sending them to re-education camps and prison, forfeiting all property etc. Myanmar Muslims, Rohingya, were targeted for genocide by their government just a few years ago when 700,000 plus were forced out of their country. Those who did not get out were slaughtered, raped and burned out of their homes and villages. In India, there have been constant waves of extreme violence against Muslims over the past 100 years. And of course, we cannot ignore Gaza.
As the Catholics have been exeptionalised for being Catholic time and time again throughout history. If we want to go back 1000s of years, the Romans really enjoyed the torture of Christians (Catholic at the time). When Protestants became a thing, the British Protestants especially, made Irish Catholics more or less illegal in their own country for the better part of 500 years. Famine there in the 1800s, driven by anti Catholic economic and political policy, meant that those who avoided starvation fled to the States, Australia or Canada. There, they continued to face anti Catholic discrimination from the British Protestants who ran those places. Prohibitions from hiring Catholics for UK government jobs in the North of Ireland were in place right up to the time of M. Thatcher - not so long ago. Indeed, to this day, no Catholic could sit on the throne or be PM. Christians are being wiped out of the Middle East (including Israel) - there are hardly any left now.
Don't forget that Women have been exeptionalised for being women time and time again throughout history.Until very recently, most women in most countries in the world were second class citizens who had few rights over their person, children, or money. There are devastating levels of hate meted out - continuously.
Black people have been exeptionalised for being Black time and time again throughout history.
The poor (both men and women) have been exeptionalised for their poverty time and time again throughout history.
I mean, this is quite a crude, off the cuff example of what I mean. We could go on (but I have to go back to work).
I don't think that Jews suffered more than other groups in certain times in history. Of course there has always been, and will always be, anti semitism, racism, misogyny, sexism, bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia, and so on. As long as we have humans, we have those. BUT - they are ascendant only sometimes, and sometimes they are not.
But, the biggest crime of all, the effort made to exterminate all Jews in the abomination of WW11, was definitely a horror that has to be the biggest stain on our collective humanity.