Conversion reinforced rather than reduced antisemitic suspicion of Jews

Evidence

Becoming a Christian had backfired in the end, therefore. Instead of doing away with the suspicion that Jews suffered as an alien element in a Christian society, it only added to it, confirming the inauthenticity that was presumed to be inherent in the Jewish mind. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1667

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the commonsense assumption that assimilationist gestures buy acceptance — echoes how flexibility/discrimination double binds appear in the notes on social capital and moral panics. — connects to: Baptized Jews could hold elite posts only by confirming the verdict on other Jews; So-called converts of Jewish origin were still deported and killed — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 444; Conversion stopped shielding converted Jews from discrimination by the late fourteenth century. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 116