Anti-antisemites lack the self-awareness of a social movement

Evidence

Yet everything is as if, when it comes to anti-antisemites, ‘the fuzziness of their sense of community meant that it occurred to none of them to ask how many of them there were in the world, and what, if they agreed to bend their energies into common action, they would be able to wreak upon the world to their common benefit’. We might nonetheless agree that, in this urgent case as well, ‘a perspective that sees a social movement as a simple historical residue or as the unmediated outcome of a policy decision is incapable of explaining it, for it necessarily ends up denying the movement any social history’. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1204

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the anti-racist struggle as a social movement needing the same analytical tools as any other movement.