Holocaust commemoration in Europe has intensified anti-Muslim prejudice

Evidence

Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are both unique and similar. A yin and a yang. They are analogous in that they are both projects of majority exclusion, religious stigmatization, and racialized scrutiny by right-wing ultranationalist politicians, organized neo-Nazi hate groups, and conservative media outlets. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 482 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Looking to the other side of the Abrahamic aisle, Goldberg chronicled the rise of anti-Semitism in contemporary Europe, and considered the ways it has mirrored the rise of Islamophobia. Goldberg also did not shrink from considering the hate crimes that have been perpetrated against European Jews, by white nationalists, by Muslim extremists, and by other groups. Near the end of the article, Goldberg tells the story of a conversation between Joe Biden and a top Israeli official, in which the Israeli confides to Biden that Jews in Israel have a secret that gives them strength in times of challenge. And the secret is “we have nowhere else to go.” — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 465 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

This is just one example of how hate against Muslims is not only burning out of control in the United States, but also how it threatens to (and does) jump from group to group, in the same way a wild fire can jump from house to house. … According to award-winning British columnist Jeff Sparrow, one reason for this phenomenon is that the ongoing “war on terror” global narrative has effectively normalized anti-Muslim rhetoric, and this rhetoric has replicated “all the traditional tropes of anti-Semitism” that white supremacists had used before. It’s just directed against Muslims now. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Western limits on speech extend to Holocaust denial but not to anti-Islamic expression — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 67; Anti-Semitism secured pure nation-states while Islamophobia preserves European civilization. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 98; The vilification of Jews and Muslims is one continuous historical process (+6 more)

Related

• European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. (similarity 0.89)
• Anti-Semitism secured pure nation-states while Islamophobia preserves European civilization. (similarity 0.87)
• Western limits on speech extend to Holocaust denial but not to anti-Islamic expression (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia remains Europe’s one tolerated and even encouraged racist ideology (similarity 0.83)
• The vilification of Jews and Muslims is one continuous historical process (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Semitism and Negrophobia share the same underlying structure (similarity 0.82)
• European hostility toward Muslims exceeds even hostility toward other immigrants (similarity 0.81)
• European bigotry presumes Jews and Muslims have somewhere else to go. (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews. (similarity 0.81)
• Holocaust commemoration paradoxically strengthens prejudice against Muslim immigrants. (similarity 0.81)
• The trope of Islam’s fixed essence descends from European anti-Semitism. (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion (similarity 0.80)
• European Islamophobia has moved from the far right into the political mainstream. (similarity 0.79)
• UK hate crimes against Muslims and Jews rose together in one year (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. #corroborates (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 465
• Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion #corroborates (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 482
• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups #corroborates (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210
• Islamophobia has become the dominant prejudice in Western societies #expands (0.60) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 15
• Sustained daily contact tempered hostile European images of Muslims. #qualifies (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 51