Jewish mannerisms trigger visceral antisemitic reactions regardless of the person’s character

Evidence

It’s a little different for Avi. He has more classically Jewish features and mannerisms than I do, and after a quarter century of living with him, I have come to recognize the visceral reaction he occasionally inspires. I recognized this same doubling at work when I was on the campaign trail with Bernie Sanders in 2020: some people just couldn’t get past the pushy, angry, uncouth Jew they imagined him to be based on his style of speech and mannerisms—never mind the abiding compassion and gentleness of the man himself. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 927

Categorization

• XREF: Bernie Sanders as a public figure whose ‘Jewish style’ draws ancient stereotypes echoes the Great Replacement / Shylock dynamic Klein names in the next paragraph, and the campaign-trail observation parallels her own ethnic-double anxieties. — connects to: Anti-Semitism’s appeal is destructive pleasure, not material gain — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 125; Anti-Semitic victims are interchangeable outlets for objectless anger; Pre-existing antisemitism alone cannot explain perpetrators’ immediate comfort with atrocity — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 336