Jews were attacked simultaneously from left and right as capitalist and liberal symbols

Evidence

Thus, the Jews became the object of a two-pronged, contradictory attack. By the middle class they were attacked as symbols of all that was rotten' in declining old-fashioned capitalismacquisitiveness, anti-social attitudes, cut-throat competition . . . At the same time, the Jews were attacked by protagonists of the new Fascism as embodying those values of liberalism which the movement’ aimed to destroy … non-conformism, self-determination, and minority rights. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 388

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The structure of the double bind — attacked for embodying the dying order and for embodying the rival liberal order at once — is a generalizable mechanism of scapegoating under structural crisis, not just a historical irony.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 388
• XREF: connects to: Jews faced opposing attacks as both capitalist symbols and liberal values incarnate. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1542; Left and right alike justified anti-Jewish violence in economic-class terms; Conflating capitalism with Jews made anti-capitalist hostility emotionally anchorable — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 146 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Jews faced opposing attacks as both capitalist symbols and liberal values incarnate. #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1542
• Left and right alike justified anti-Jewish violence in economic-class terms #expands (0.80)
• Conflating capitalism with Jews made anti-capitalist hostility emotionally anchorable #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 146
• Anti-Jewish prejudice attached to modernity and revolution across the political spectrum #qualifies (0.80)
• Antisemites accused Jews of being simultaneously insular and cosmopolitan #epitomizes (0.70) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 544