A German-Jewish poet’s plight parallels a modern Dutch critic of Islam

Evidence

My intention here will be to shed light on these questions by a making a comparison between Hirsi Ali and the renowned German-Jewish poet, essayist and writer Heinrich Heine (1797–1867), whose struggle to find his place as a Jew in German society bears remarkable resemblance to the battles of Hirsi Ali’s conducted in the Netherlands of the twenty-first century. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1639

Categorization

• SEED: A comparative essay structure pairing historical antisemitic exclusion with contemporary Islamophobic inclusion-and-discipline — the assimilation contract as it applies to successive minorities.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what precisely connects Heine’s situation (Jewish integration into German letters, conversion, ambivalence) to Hirsi Ali’s as an ex-Muslim critic of Islam — both assimilated into a majority that then turned on them.