Coordinated antisemitic violence appeared spontaneous but was centrally organized

Evidence

Popular indignation broke out everywhere on the same day and at precisely the same hour. Under the leadership of Guérin the mob took on a military complexion. Antisemitic shock troops appeared on the streets and made certain that every pro-Dreyfus meeting should end in bloodshed. The complicity of the police was everywhere patent. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 316

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the scaffolding concept of manufactured consensus/hegemony—apparent ‘popular’ outcry timed synchronically across cities is a signature mechanism of orchestrated mobilization. — connects to: Coordinated violence ranges from improvised to centrally scripted — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 725