Antisemitism survives and re-targets other populations after Jews disappear

Evidence

It has been recently noted that antisemitism survived the populations it had been ostensibly targeted against. In countries where the Jews have all but disappeared, antisemitism (as sentiment, of course, married now to practices related primarily to other targets than the Jews) continues unabated. Even more remarkable is the dissociation between the acceptance of anti-Jewish sentiments and any other national, religious or racial prejudices, with which it was thought to be closely correlated. Neither are the antisemitic feelings related today to group or individual idiosyncracies, and particularly to anxiety-generating unresolved problems, acute uncertainty etc. Bernd Martin, who explored the Austrian case of ‘antisemitism without Jews’ has coined the term cultural sedimentation to account for a relatively new phenomenon: certain (usually morbid or otherwise unprepossessing or shameful) human features or behavioural patterns have come to be defined in popular consciousness as Jewish. In the absence of practical tests of such conjunction, the negative cultural definition and the antipathy to the features to which it refers feed and reinforce each other. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 226

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Bernd Martin’s ‘cultural sedimentation’ — negative human traits defined as belonging to a target group, self-reinforcing without practical contact.
• XREF: Powerfully portable to Islamophobia: cultural sedimentation as the mechanism by which hostility survives and re-targets regardless of actual demographics. — connects to: Tribal antisemitism severed hatred of Jews from any actual experience of them; Antisemitism peaked after Jews had already lost economic influence; Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding (+7 more)
• QUESTION: Bauman says antisemitism is decoupled from other prejudices — does the current Islamophobia landscape show a similar decoupling or the fusion he rules out?

Related

• Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding (similarity 0.89)
• Antisemitism peaked after Jews had already lost economic influence (similarity 0.87)
• Contemporary antisemitism spreads by diffusion and adapts to local anxieties. (similarity 0.84)
• Tribal antisemitism severed hatred of Jews from any actual experience of them (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural racism travels and can be adopted without local Jewish populations (similarity 0.81)
• Antisemitism targets a minority marked as foreigners inside the host community. (similarity 0.80)
• Antisemitism thrived where Germans had almost no contact with Jews (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Cultural racism travels and can be adopted without local Jewish populations #corroborates (0.92) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 225
• Contemporary antisemitism spreads by diffusion and adapts to local anxieties. #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 227
• Social exclusion of Jews made abstract stereotypes replace personal knowledge. #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 531