Apparent ethnic splits in French antiracism are really organizational competition

Evidence

Rather than trying to pin everything on communautarisme, a more convincing explanation would be a longer-term political split dating back to the onset of the Cold War. The MRAP traces its lineage back to Mouvement national contre le racisme (MNCR), a clandestine wartime group set up by Communists to hide Jews and produce false papers. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1359 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fixing on antisemitism as the sole admissible racism blinds France to other institutional bias — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 960; French anti-racist activism linked antisemitism to Islamophobia beneath surface divisions; The antiracist split reflects rival fears of genocide versus class domination. (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Cold War political lineage explains rivalries among French anti-racist organizations better than ethnicity. #corroborates (0.93) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1359