Medieval ‘Jews have horns’ imagery still circulates in twenty-first-century Britain

Evidence

As we later discovered in an interview with Sayyid, this time-old antisemitic discourse was still circulating in the UK today. After Sayyid told Fiaz about the failed inter-faith sports event, he added that while British Jews appeared to have unsettling concerns about British Muslims, the latter were susceptible to negative stereotyping too. Sayyid said: … Once I visited a Jewish museum, and a lady who worked there told me that recently they had a group of Muslim kids on a school trip. One of the kids, a nine or ten year old girl asked her to kneel down, because she wanted to see her horns. ‘To see what?!’ the lady said. ‘Your horns. My parents say that Jews have horns.’ — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1740 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The medieval ‘Jews have horns’ myth still circulates among British Muslim children today — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 1740; British caricature of Jews shifted from oriental to assimilated in a century; Jewishness in contemporary England functions as visible bodily otherness rather than belonging — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 760 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The medieval ‘Jews have horns’ myth still circulates among British Muslim children today #expands (0.92) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1740