Antisemitism links domestic control with external expansion

Evidence

Apparently a few more decades of hidden chaos and open despair were necessary before large strata of people happily admitted that they were going to achieve what, as they believed, only Jews in their innate devilishness had been able to achieve thus far. The leaders of the pan-movements, at any rate, though already vaguely aware of the social question, were very one-sided in their insistence on foreign policy. They therefore were unable to see that antisemitism could form the necessary link connecting domestic with external methods; they did not know yet how to establish their “folk community,” that is, the completely uprooted, racially indoctrinated horde. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 613

Categorization

• DEFINE: The function of the anti-Jewish scapegoat as the hinge joining internal ‘folk community’ formation to external imperial method — a mechanism for the toolkit.