Anti-racist groups split over whether mobilising on antisemitism alone alienated Muslim constituents

Evidence

Dominique Sopo, president of SOS Racisme, explained the thinking behind the May 2004 demonstration thus: press releases were not enough, society had to react by marching, to avoid antisemitism returning to a space in public debate that it had not had since the Second World War. It had to be specifically about antisemitism to make this clear. He accused rival organisations of looking at society through ‘the broken glasses of an exotico-victimist discourse’ that wrongly assumed that people of immigrant origin would not mobilise against antisemitism alone. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1372

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘exotico-victimist discourse’ criticism connects to broader debates about identity politics and who counts as a legitimate victim in European anti-racism.