Label etymology should not be confused with the content of prejudice

Evidence

Comparative analyses of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim racisms can easily become locked into endless debates about the differences between these two terms. Yet this kind of discussion confuses the etymology of labels with the content of fields of knowledge. We use antisemitism and Islamophobia in this book merely as recognisable monikers for prejudice against Jews and Judaism, Muslims and Islam; we attribute no fixed meaning to them. … To comprehend disdain in Europe for Jews, Judaism, Muslims and Islam, we must investigate the entire intellectual universe to which it belongs: ideas about Jews and Muslims in all their fullness and complexity, and, as Hannah Arendt showed us more than sixty years ago, their wider contexts. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 76

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 76