Anti-Semitism structurally depends on false generalization, not merely hostility to individuals.

Evidence

One of the most provocative defences was what Adorno succinctly termed `turning truth into ideology’: We know the role that cliché, rigid and therefore false generalization, plays in totalitarian thinking. Anti-Semitism, which transfers a number of negative stereotypes to a whole group with no regard to the persons concerned, would be unthinkable without the method of false generalization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 500

Categorization

• DEFINE: ‘Turning truth into ideology’ is Adorno’s term for collapsing generality into rigid cliché.
• XREF: Links to the anti-Semitism chapter’s analysis of the anti-Semitic personality and objectless projection.