European antisemitism has been displaced onto Muslims through a parallel trajectory of dehumanization

Evidence

But what of a different trajectory from past to present, from the ashes of Auschwitz to violated cemeteries, torched mosques, death threats and fatwas in Europe’s cities today? What, then, of the trajectory of the Muselmann, of the Muslim? — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 858

Categorization

• QUESTION: Goldberg’s pointed use of ‘Muselmann’ — the Nazi death-camp term for the living dead — as a pivot to the contemporary Muslim is deliberately provocative. Worth interrogating the ethics and accuracy of this rhetorical move.
• FICTION: The juxtaposition of violated cemeteries, torched mosques, and death threats as a contemporary European landscape could anchor a narrative about post-migration Europe.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as the object of displaced aggression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1812; The trope of Islam’s fixed essence descends from European anti-Semitism.