Holocaust commemoration paradoxically strengthens prejudice against Muslim immigrants.

Evidence

National sins, and our efforts to atone for them, can have ironic and unintended consequences for new immigrant populations. In a fascinating study of memory politics in Germany, the Netherlands, and France, Nancy Foner and Richard Alba show how commemoration of the Holocaust, which is meant to foster tolerance and a protective stance toward the rights of minority populations, has actually shored up prejudice against Muslim immigrants, who are widely portrayed as religiously intolerant, homophobic, sexist, and anti-Semitic. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 663

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s scaffold chapters, especially the mechanism of the frightened/pious subject being inverted — here tolerance-atonement itself breeds the exclusionary subject.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does this mechanism appear in American pro-Israel discourse where Holocaust memory licenses Islamophobic framing?