Cold War political lineage explains rivalries among French anti-racist organizations better than ethnicity.

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

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Milgrom material on how institutions’ founding histories shape their later enforcement structures.