Anti-Semitism is debated between racial and assimilationist doctrines, neither fully correct.

Evidence

The postracial attacks triggered counterattacks from antiracists, pointing out racial discrimination from Twitter to Facebook, from Hip Hop to Black Studies scholarship, from shows on MSNBC to Sirius XM Progress, and from periodicals like The Nation to The Root, which then triggered counterattacks from postracialists, who called these antiracists divisive and racist. Assimilationists, stuck in the middle, considered themselves the voices of reasonable moderation. They kept up the drumbeat of the ill-conceived allegory of how far the nation had come and how far it still had to go. The actual American history of racial progress and the simultaneous progression of racism still did not suit their ideology. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1234 (#expands, via linked claim)

“North American negroes … in culture and language,” Boas said, were “essentially European.” Boas was “absolutely opposed to all kinds of attempts to foster racial solidarity,” including among his own Jewish people. He, like other assimilationists, saw the United States as a melting pot in which all the cultural colors became absorbed together (into White Americanness). Ironically, assimilationists like Boas hated racial solidarity, but kept producing racist ideas based on racial solidarity. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 795 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

For nearly six centuries, antiracist ideas have been pitted against two kinds of racist ideas: segregationist and assimilationist. The history of racist ideas that follows is the history of these three distinct voices—segregationists, assimilationists, and antiracists—and how they each have rationalized racial disparities, arguing why Whites have remained on the living and winning end, while Blacks remained on the losing and dying end. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 13 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The racial debate cycles through antiracist and postracialist attacks with assimilationists self-positioned as moderate — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1234; Racist ideas divide into segregationist and assimilationist varieties, opposed by antiracism — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 13; Assimilationists rejected racial solidarity while still reasoning in racial categories. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 795 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The racial debate cycles through antiracist and postracialist attacks with assimilationists self-positioned as moderate #expands (0.85) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1234
• Assimilationists rejected racial solidarity while still reasoning in racial categories. #exemplifies (0.82) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 795
• Racist ideas divide into segregationist and assimilationist varieties, opposed by antiracism #expands (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 13
• Anti-Muslim sentiment terminology mirrors the older, unresolved antisemitism debates about racism vs. religious prejudice. #corroborates (0.80) — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 48