Anti-Semitism functions as an interchangeable, replaceable programmatic label under Fascism
Evidence
It would be palpably unjust to assert that all critics or opponents of Israel are moved by anti-Semitism; it would be equally mistaken to deny that anti-Zionism can on occasion pro vide a cloak of respectability for a prejudice which, at the present time, is not normally admitted in public by anyone with political ambitions or cultural pretensions. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1240 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
If one were to characterize the Institut’s general attitude towards the “Jewish question,” it would have to be seen as similar to that expressed by another radical Jew almost a century before, Karl Marx. In both cases the religious or ethnic issue was clearly subordinated to the social. In Dammerung, Horkheimer attacked Jewish capitalists who were against anti-Semitism simply because it posed an economic threat. “The readiness to sacrifice life and property for belief,” he wrote, “is left behind with the material basis of the ghetto. With the bourgeois Jew, the hierarchy of goods is neither Jewish nor Christian, but bourgeois… . The Jewish revolutionary, like the
aryan,' risks his own life for the freedom of mankind." — <cite>Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 162</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Anti-Jewish prejudice attached to modernity and revolution across the political spectrum; Anti-Zionism can cloak anti-Semitism unacceptable in public discourse — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1240; The Institut subordinated Jewish identity and anti-Semitism to social class analysis — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 162 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Anti-Jewish prejudice attached to modernity and revolution across the political spectrum
#expands(0.80) - Anti-Zionism can cloak anti-Semitism unacceptable in public discourse
#exemplifies(0.75) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1240 - The Institut subordinated Jewish identity and anti-Semitism to social class analysis
#corroborates(0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 162 - Capitalist anti-Semitism is the bourgeoisie’s self-hatred displaced onto Jews
#exemplifies(0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 132 - Anti-Zionism serves as a respectable cover for anti-Semitism where direct prejudice is discredited
#exemplifies(0.72) - Redefining antisemitism to include Israel criticism inflates antisemitism and intensifies anti-Palestinian racism
#exemplifies(0.72) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 30 - Defeating Fascism does not guarantee freedom will replace it.
#expands(0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 195 - Defeating fascism left its root causes intact beneath a ticket mentality
#complicates(0.70) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 703 - Ideological labels simplify rather than distort the real political world
#complicates(0.70) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2085