Anti-Semitic anger erupts because rights promises mock the cheated masses.

Evidence

Liberalism had allowed the Jews property, but no power to command. The rights of man were designed to promise happiness even to those without power. Because the cheated masses feel that this promise in general remains a lie as long as there are still classes, their anger is aroused. They feel mocked. They must suppress the very possibility and idea of that happiness, the more relevant it becomes. Wherever it seems to have been achieved despite its fundamental denial, they have to repeat the suppression of their own longing. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1429

Categorization

• DEFINE: The mechanism of anti-Semitism as false projection — the masses’ suppressed longing for happiness finds a target in those who seem to enjoy it.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-Semitic rage targets those who appear to enjoy happiness the masses were denied. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1429; Anti-Semitism is a manufactured discharge of anger, not an innate disposition. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 127

Broader Connections

• Anti-Semitic rage targets those who appear to enjoy happiness the masses were denied. #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1429
• Anti-Semitism is a manufactured discharge of anger, not an innate disposition. #expands (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 127