Early radical anti-Jewish rhetoric was not yet full-fledged antisemitism

Evidence

In Prussia, though not in Austria or in France, this radical antisemitism was almost as short-lived and inconsequential as the earlier antisemitism of nobility. The radicals were more and more absorbed by the liberalism of the economically rising middle classes, which all over Germany some twenty years later clamored in their diets for Jewish emancipation and for realization of political equality. It established, however, a certain theoretical and even literary tradition whose influence can be recognized in the famous anti-Jewish writings of the young Marx, who so frequently and unjustly has been accused of antisemitism. That the Jew, Karl Marx, could write the same way these anti-Jewish radicals did is only proof of how little this kind of anti-Jewish argument had in common with full-fledged antisemitism. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 137

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes anti-Jewish political argument from full-fledged antisemitism as separate phenomena.
• XREF: Connects to the field’s need to separate antisemitism proper from earlier anti-Jewish prejudice — a distinction the Islamophobia literature also wrestles with. — connects to: Christian anti-Jewish writings were not pervasive until the medieval period — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 498