Antisemitic images of Jews function to perpetuate the rule of domination.

Evidence

Which group of people would turn antisemitic in a given country at a given historical moment depended exclusively upon general circumstances which made them ready for a violent antagonism to their government. But the remarkable similarity of arguments and images which time and again were spontaneously reproduced have an intimate relationship with the truth they distort. We find the Jews always represented as an international trade organization, a world-wide family concern with identical interests everywhere, a secret force behind the throne which degrades all visible governments into mere façade, or into marionettes whose strings are manipulated from behind the scenes. Because of their close relationship to state sources of power, the Jews were invariably identified with power, and because of their aloofness from society and concentration upon the closed circle of the family, they were invariably suspected of working for the destruction of all social structures. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 124 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rational counter-arguments fail against anti-Semitism rooted in domination — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 126; A society wholly commercialized condemns Jews as materialists it has itself become.; Antisemitic images distort but remain tied to Jews’ real closeness to state power — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 124 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Antisemitic images distort but remain tied to Jews’ real closeness to state power #expands (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 124
• Chimerical images of Jewish power became dangerous public fears #expands (0.85)
• Anti-Semitic prejudice exaggerates Jewish power rather than disparaging incompetence #expands (0.85)
• Anti-Semitism projects the subject’s own repressed impulses onto the victim #expands (0.82) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 147