Contemporary antisemitism spreads by diffusion and adapts to local anxieties.

Evidence

In our global village, news travels fast and wide, and culture has long become a game without frontiers. Rather than a product of cultural sedimentation, contemporary antisemitism seems to be subject to the processes of cultural diffusion, today much more intense than at any time in the past. Like other objects of such diffusion, antisemitism, while retaining affinity with its original form, is on the way transformed – sharpened or enriched – to adapt to the problems and needs of its new home. … Judeophobic stereotype offers a ready-made intelligibility to the otherwise puzzling and frightening dislocations and previously unexperienced forms of suffering. For instance, in Japan it has become in recent years increasingly popular as a universal key to the understanding of unanticipated obstacles in the path of economic expansion; the activity of world Jewry is proposed as the explanation of events so diverse as the over-valuation of the yen and the alleged threat of fall-out in the case of another Czernobyl-style nuclear mishap followed by another Soviet cover-up. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 227

Categorization

• XREF: The diffusion-mechanism model, with stereotype offering ready-made intelligibility for dislocation, parallels how conspiracy frameworks travel in later Islamophobia material. — connects to: Antisemitism was first deployed as a deliberate instrument of foreign policy disruption; Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding; Antisemitism survives and re-targets other populations after Jews disappear — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 226 (+6 more)

Related

• Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding (similarity 0.88)
• Antisemitism survives and re-targets other populations after Jews disappear (similarity 0.84)
• Antisemitism targets a minority marked as foreigners inside the host community. (similarity 0.80)
• European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. (similarity 0.80)
• Holocaust commemoration in Europe has intensified anti-Muslim prejudice (similarity 0.79)
• Antisemitic myths persist only when they can still articulate real anxieties (similarity 0.79)
• The trope of Islam’s fixed essence descends from European anti-Semitism. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups #exemplifies (0.82) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210
• European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. #corroborates (0.80) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 465
• Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion #expands (0.78) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 482
• Anti-Muslim sentiment operates independently of local political ideology #contradicts (0.78)
• Treating antisemitism and Islamophobia as analogous masks asymmetric power relations. #complicates (0.75) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 23