Jews built South Africa’s secondary industries and drew nationalist resentment.

Evidence

“Rabid Afrikaaner nationalist leaders have deplored the fact that there are 102,000 Jews in the Union; most of them are white-collar workers, industrial employers, shopkeepers, or members of the professions. The Jews did much to build up the secondary industries of South Africa—i.e., industries other than gold and diamond mining—concentrating particularly on the manufacture of clothes and furniture” (James, op. cit., p. 46). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2352

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the toolkit on how a productive minority group becomes resented for its economic role — mechanism relevant to anti-Semitism/Islamophobia readings.