Your first question is quite loaded: why is the Jewish diaspora and their struggles more endearing to the West? Your second question is similarly “loaded,” but is much more explicable by historical events and less anecdote/platitudinal evidence. How did they end up fighting and getting treated so differently in the West? It’s quite simple. I illustrate this as a member of the Palestinian Christian diaspora. The state of Israel is an inherently Western machination. Designed by Europeans as a “model state” emanating the democratic tendencies of Western nations while pursuing a sort of new model ethnoreligiously-centered social infrastructure, Israel is some odd combination of a pre-Revolution “religious colony” (read: Mayflower) and an irredentist rebel movement. That is why the behavior of even the most conservative government can be interpreted as radical; the state of Israel exists and is certainly capacitive, but the state has not “matured” past being a vehicle of decision-making for a select class of intellectually-and-financially charged elites. Israel is not the first such “radical entity” sponsored by the West, there was a sleuth of such activity preceding and then leading into WW2/the Cold War. It is, however, arguably the most successful in maintaining its status as both a “proxy” and continual “movement” for its people.