Antisemitism stayed national where it lacked an imperialist politics to exploit it

Evidence

That France, for various reasons, never developed a full-fledged imperialist party turned out to be the decisive element. … Since, moreover, her antisemitism had been nourished principally by the purely national French-German conflict, the Jewish issue was almost automatically kept from playing much of a role in imperialist policies, despite the conditions in Algeria, whose mixed population of native Jews and Arabs would have offered an excellent opportunity. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 177

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Islamophobia frame’s core distinction between national/colonial antisemitism and racisms that become state policy in colonial contexts — the claim that antisemitism feeds on national conflicts while race-thinking flourishes in imperial settings.