Antisemitic propaganda accused Jews of malicious power and capacity to inflict harm.

Evidence

The resulting prejudicial beliefs are likely to pertain especially to char­ acteristics that connote the potential for intentional threat or harm. Such accusations were constantly leveled at Jews by Nazi propaganda that charac­ terized Jews as both overtly and covertly malicious (the “stab in the back” resulting in German defeat in 1918, collusion with international capitalism and with Bolshevism, a “world Jewish conspiracy,” etc.; Rosenbaum, 1998; Yahil, 1990). — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 498

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘collusion with international capitalism’ charge is precisely the high-competence/high-power caricature Glick’s envied-outgroup thesis predicts — competence, not weakness, coded as menace. — connects to: Nazi propaganda framed Jews as willful agents of social disorder, amplifying existing German fears. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 487; Germans believed Jews’ power and capacity to cause harm was colossal. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 498; Antisemitic images of Jews function to perpetuate the rule of domination. (+4 more)
• SEED: Angle: ‘the compliment buried in the slur’ — how genocidal propaganda attributes to victims exactly the traits it fears, an inversion of vulnerability.

Broader Connections

• Anti-Semitic prejudice exaggerates Jewish power rather than disparaging incompetence #corroborates (0.95)
• Chimerical images of Jewish power became dangerous public fears #corroborates (0.95)
• Anti-Semitic forgeries exaggerate Jews’ power rather than disparaging their competence #corroborates (0.95)
• Medieval and modern antisemitism are linked by the conspiratorial Jewish world-power myth #corroborates (0.90)
• Antisemitic images of Jews function to perpetuate the rule of domination. #corroborates (0.85)