Holocaust exceptionalism hinders understanding antisemitism as racism

Evidence

Kushner’s analysis can be seen as a critical reassessment of the limits and contradictions in some popular understandings of antisemitism, particularly those focused on the Holocaust. He suggests that there is a need for clearer analytical thinking about the relationship between antisemitism and racism, ethnic hatreds, and persecution as a whole. A recurrent theme throughout Kushner’s analysis relates to the limitations of recent trends to the Holocaust’s supposed exceptionalism, to see it as a unique and incomparable phenomenon. In contrast, he suggests, there is a need to contextualize antisemitism within a wider conceptual and historical framework of analysis. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 171

Categorization

• XREF: Anti-exceptionalism and contextualizing antisemitism within general racism echoes vault debates on whether antisemitism is a distinct racism or a species of it. — connects to: The Holocaust should not define what antisemitism across history looks like — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 517
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 171