British political leaders portray Jews as a model minority and Muslims as threatening outsiders.

Evidence

Whereas Jews have been portrayed by David Cameron and other political leaders as a model minority – law-abiding, aspiring, with a strong sense of collective identity that dovetails with patriotism – Muslims are presented as a group that places itself and others in jeopardy – inhabiting a culture of poverty, insufficiently integrated into British society, and a source of sympathy for terror and the nation’s enemies (Jewish Chronicle 2011, Gov.uk 2015). — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 708

Whereas Jews have been portrayed by David Cameron and other political leaders as a model minority – law-abiding, aspiring, with a strong sense of collective identity that dovetails with patriotism – Muslims are presented as a group that places itself and others in jeopardy – inhabiting a culture of poverty, insufficiently integrated into British society, and a source of sympathy for terror and the nation’s enemies (Jewish Chronicle 2011, Gov.uk 2015). — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 703

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘model minority’ framing trope familiar from South Asian/African-American sociology and to the reader’s broader work on how integration categories are constructed politically. — connects to: Both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations in modern Europe. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 100; Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 167
• DEFINE: Shows how the ‘integrated insider vs. unintegrated outsider’ binary is actually operationalized in UK political rhetoric — Muslims defined negatively against a Jewish ideal.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 708; Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 703

Related

• Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism (similarity 0.81)
• State engineering of Muslim representation differs from its handling of other minorities. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews. (similarity 0.79)
• Muslim political actors in 1990 Britain already perceived a state campaign against them. (similarity 0.79)
• Official UK integration strategy framed Muslims as a threat to national cohesion (similarity 0.78)
• Suspicion of Britain’s Muslims predates modern biological racism (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations in modern Europe. #expands (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 100
• Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism #exemplifies (0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 167