Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews.

Evidence

In this article we explore some of the reasons why there may be less sympathy for the notion that Muslim minorities might be subject to racism by virtue of their real or perceived ‘Muslimness’ than there is, rightly, for the idea that Jewish minorities in Europe might be the object of racism by virtue of their real or perceived ‘Jewishness’. Or, more precisely, that ‘a form of hostility towards Jews as Jews’ might be paralleled by a form of hostility towards Muslims as Muslims. This parallel is something that goes beyond similarities in negative stereotyping, however, for, as Geoffrey Levey and Tariq Modood insist, the analogy lies in the way in which anti-Muslim sentiment, like antisemitism, ‘trades on and reinforces prejudice … via a process of induction and a process of deduction’. — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 28

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s curation of rival definitions of Islamophobia — this passage positions the text in the anti-Muslim-racism camp with antisemitism as its model. — connects to: European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 465; Both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations in modern Europe. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 100; Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish stereotyping operates through racialization rather than mere religious prejudice. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 700 (+17 more)
• DEFINE: Defines anti-Muslim sentiment structurally via the induction/deduction logic borrowed from Klug on antisemitism.

Related

• Identity politics structurally separates Muslim and Jewish anti-racism despite shared experience of denigration. (similarity 0.90)
• Anti-Muslim sentiment terminology mirrors the older, unresolved antisemitism debates about racism vs. religious prejudice. (similarity 0.90)
• The trope of Islam’s fixed essence descends from European anti-Semitism. (similarity 0.87)
• Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish stereotyping operates through racialization rather than mere religious prejudice. (similarity 0.87)
• Both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations in modern Europe. (similarity 0.87)
• The terms ‘Islamophobia’ and ‘antisemitism’ can undermine the solidarity their comparison aims to build (similarity 0.86)
• Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion (similarity 0.85)
• Parallel racialization logics target Jews and Muslims across eras. (similarity 0.85)
• Debates on antisemitism and Islamophobia have developed largely apart from race scholarship. (similarity 0.85)
• Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism (similarity 0.85)
• The vilification of Jews and Muslims is one continuous historical process (similarity 0.85)
• Racism scholarship’s biologistic paradigms long excluded anti-Muslim discrimination as unclassifiable (similarity 0.85)
• European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. (similarity 0.84)
• European Jews and Muslims were jointly racialized as Semites until 1917 (similarity 0.84)
• Antisemitism and Islamophobia share tropes but remain structurally distinct racisms (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. #corroborates (1.00) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 465
• Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion #corroborates (0.95) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 482
• Both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations in modern Europe. #expands (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 100
• Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish stereotyping operates through racialization rather than mere religious prejudice. #expands (0.85) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 700
• Treating antisemitism and Islamophobia as analogous masks asymmetric power relations. #contradicts (0.85) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 23
• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups #corroborates (0.80) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210
• Identity politics structurally separates Muslim and Jewish anti-racism despite shared experience of denigration. #expands (0.80) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 715
• Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. #expands (0.80) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 116
• Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice #expands (0.80)
• Highlighting shared antisemitic and Islamophobic histories is itself a political intervention against Muslim-Jewish distance. #expands (0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 705
• Rights-based anti-racism can bridge Muslim and Jewish causes where identity politics cannot. #expands (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 716
• The terms ‘Islamophobia’ and ‘antisemitism’ can undermine the solidarity their comparison aims to build #complicates (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 706
• Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism #expands (0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 167