Emancipated Jews actively severed solidarity with poorer immigrant co-religionists rather than defending them

Evidence

No one, however, found it more difficult to grasp this fact than the emancipated Jews themselves. “It isn’t enough for them,” wrote Bernard Lazare, “to reject any solidarity with their foreign-born brethren; they have also to go charging them with all the evils which their own cowardice engenders. They are not content with being more jingoist than the native Frenchmen; like all emancipated Jews everywhere, they have also of their own volition broken all ties of solidarity. Indeed, they go so far that for the three dozen or so men in France who are ready to defend one of their martyred brethren you can find some thousands ready to stand guard over Devil’s Island, alongside the most rabid patriots of the country.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 332

Categorization

• SEED: The dynamics of the assimilated minority policing and ostracizing its own ‘unassimilated’ newcomers is a transferable motif worth an essay on contemporary intra-Muslim dynamics.
• XREF: connects to: German-Jewish philanthropy to immigrant slum dwellers was laced through with patronizing contempt