Anti-Jewish conspiracy functions historically as a shock absorber protecting elite wealth.

Evidence

Over the centuries, anti-Jewish conspiracy has played a very specific purpose for elite power: it acts as a buffer, a shock absorber. Before popular rage could reach the kings, queens, tsars, and old landed money, the conspiracies absorbed it, directing anger to the middle managers—to the court Jew, to the scheming Jew, possibly with horns hidden under his skullcap. To Shylock. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 937

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the reader’s ADDENDUM interest in sacrifice as a ‘stabilizer of stratified societies’ — the scapegoat Jew here performs the same stabilizing/diversionary function as ritual victims.
• BMF: The ‘middle managers’ scapegoat as shock absorber evokes Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, but no passage in the listed library maps onto it; closest spirit is the class-structure dynamics in Things Fall Apart.