Cross-national opinion data refute claims that Islamophobia and antisemitism are incommensurable

Evidence

This is crucial and worth restating because, as Figure 1 shows, it points to the overlapping articulation of both phenomena as something that emerges not in a tiered hierarchy but as a conjoined activity (the fuller data show quite persuasively how antipathy towards Muslims and Jews increases and decreases by consistent percentages over the same intervals). … Analytically, this problematizes the bifurcation proposed by a number of authors, repeated by Rensmann and Schoeps (2011, p. 52), that the two are incommensurable because: . . .antisemitism has motivated mass movements, declared Jews as ”enemies of mankind,” and, in its past and present forms, attributes to Jews global conspiracies, hidden power, control over the media and politics, the subterranean global destruction of societies . . .none of which we tend to find even in the most radical forms of public anti-Muslim resentments. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion, 45

Categorization

• QUESTION: If antipathy to Jews and Muslims rises and falls together across 24 countries, this strongly bears on whether the two are sustained by the same social mechanism — direct evidence for the reader’s MOC thread.
• XREF: connects to: The shared underlying logic of racialization persists across Jew and Muslim targets — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 40