Jewish religious identity was racialized with the same one-drop logic used against Blacks

Evidence

Some government officials categorized Jews as a mixed race that had interbred with Black Africans during the Diaspora. This conclusion was based on some scientists’ claims that Semites originated in Africa. Similar to the “one drop” rule for Blacks, Jewish religious identity thus was ascribed irredeemable biological traits arising from their impurity of blood. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 257

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Parallels the structural logic of anti-Black one-drop racialization documented in works on American race law; also connects to the rising-fascism reading list (Bruno Maçães’s “History Has Begun” also draws such parallels).

Related

• Religion gets racialized by ascribing inherited biological traits to a faith community (similarity 0.89)
• Religious identity can become racialized by imputing biological and cultural inferiority (similarity 0.81)
• Religion unified American identity while race divided it (similarity 0.79)
• Religious justifications merged with scientific racism to justify conquest. (similarity 0.79)
• Religious beliefs once darkened the perceived skin color of Catholics and Jews (similarity 0.79)
• Religious identity historically served as a proxy for race in American immigration debates (similarity 0.79)
• Courts racialized Muslim identity using skin color and the one-drop rule. (similarity 0.79)
• Religious identity, once racialized, bars citizens from full dignitary benefits (similarity 0.79)
• Jews were racially Whitened while Arabs were raced as non-White threats (similarity 0.78)
• Western racism originated in fifteenth-century anti-Islamic and anti-Jewish animus (similarity 0.78)
• Legal whiteness did not protect Jews and Catholics from social racialization (similarity 0.78)