A small phenomenon like antisemitism could catalyze world war and genocide

Evidence

In this sense, it must be possible to face and understand the outrageous fact that so small (and, in world politics, so unimportant) a phenomenon as the Jewish question and antisemitism could become the catalytic agent for first, the Nazi movement, then a world war, and finally the establishment of death factories. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 10

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘catalytic agent’ framing prefigures how race-thinking operates as a disproportionate historical motor — directly relevant to the Islamophobia field’s causal claims. — connects to: The Institute proposed approximating real-life conditions to visualize antisemitic reaction mechanisms. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1515