Each community’s insecurity targets the other as the threat

Evidence

In both cases the suspicion was hardly based on evidence, but it is important to consider it as a symptom of a more general feeling of insecurity experienced in both communities, the topic that we will address in the following section. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1761 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Internal race-fear and external military threat fed each other on the West Coast — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1027; Fear-driven groups become the very threat they fear — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 417; A common external threat does not reliably unite polarized publics — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 125 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Mutual groundless suspicion between communities signals shared insecurity rather than delusion. #corroborates (0.95) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1761