Antisemitism served as an instrument to dissolve the nation-state itself

Evidence

The claim of a party to be beyond all parties had other, more significant, implications than antisemitism. If it had been only a question of getting rid of the Jews, Fritsch’s proposal, at one of the early antisemitic congresses, not to create a new party but rather to disseminate antisemitism until finally all existing parties were hostile to Jews, would have brought much quicker results. As it was, Fritsch’s proposal went unheeded because anti-semitism was then already an instrument for the liquidation not only of the Jews but of the body politic of the nation-state as well. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 150

Categorization

• XREF: Key mechanism for the scaffolding module: Jew-hatred as instrument, not end — a propellant for dismantling liberal state structures that the Islamophobia readings will parallel. Connects to Arendt’s later claim that the Jews’ statelessness preceded and enabled their destruction. — connects to: National Socialism functioned as a non-state ruling directly without legal mediation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1183
• ADDENDUM: Relevant to ‘On Sacrifice: The Real Kind, with Corpses’ insofar as it distinguishes instrumentalized hatred from genuine grievance — the sacrificial logic where a group is destroyed to stabilize a political order.