A Muslim respondent views Jewish acceptance as earned through suffering

Evidence

People are ok with the Jewish community now because it had to pay the price for it. It [their acceptance] didn’t happen overnight, it took hundreds of years and it took millions of people dying in the Holocaust to get to where they are—so yes, the Muslim community might look and say ‘they’re normalised and no one seems to have a problem with them’, but it came at a price. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1733

Categorization

  • XREF: Cross-community empathy about suffering mirrors the sacrificial logic in ‘On Sacrifice’ — acceptance purchased through mass death.
  • ADDENDUM: The idea that a minority’s acceptance comes ‘at a price’ of historical catastrophe parallels the sacrificial economy framing in ‘On Sacrifice: The Real Kind, with Corpses’ — worth a cross-reference in a follow-up.