American antisemitism lacked the nomadic desert people accusation of Europe

Evidence

On the other hand, orientalist fantasy never played so important a role in North America as it did in Europe, the front line against dar al-Islam in early modernity and, thereafter, its conqueror. Jews in North America have been perceived as white, hence European, and American antisemitism has been relatively free of the European staple accusation that Jews were a nomadic desert people. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 149

Categorization

• XREF: Directly ties to the essay on complaints about immodesty and to the broader thesis ascribing European orientalism to the dar al-Islam frontier.