Anti-Semitic ideology fused contradictory charges into a single universalist enemy image

Evidence

The Bolshevik theme fused with an onslaught on Jewish capitalism and a supplementary attack on Jewish morality; and over all of these clashing charges hovered an image of the Jew as a peculiarly and supremely international force. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1696

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The key mechanism: an enemy that can absorb mutually contradictory accusations (Bolshevism AND capitalism AND immorality) is defined not by any real characteristic but only by its supreme internationalism — prime evidence for manufactured rather than primordial enmity.
• XREF: Connects to reader’s research on whether the enemy category is manufactured; the internally contradictory composite is itself proof of construction since no real group could hold all these traits. — connects to: Anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim images fused into one stock enemy — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 171; Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210; Anti-Muslim polemics and anti-Jewish polemics were fused together (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim images fused into one stock enemy #expands (0.95) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 171
• Anti-Muslim polemics and anti-Jewish polemics were fused together #corroborates (0.90)
• Anti-imperial and antisemitic ideology fused Semites with desert nomadism #expands (0.85)
• Anti-Semitic imagery transfers smoothly from Jewish to Arab targets #exemplifies (0.85)
• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups #exemplifies (0.80) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210