Ideological Jew-hatred detaches from any actual Jewish actions

Evidence

As their own national pride was independent of all achievements, so their hatred of the Jews had emancipated itself from all specific Jewish deeds and misdeeds. In this the pan-movements were in complete agreement, although neither knew how to utilize this ideological mainstay for purposes of political organization. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 611

Categorization

  • XREF: This ‘emancipated’ hatred anticipates the later Arendtian account of totalitarian antisemitism as detached from real Jews — a mechanism useful for the Islamophobia toolkit on how stereotypes float free of the stereotyped group.