Minority attitudes toward another minority are doubly mediated by media and memory

Evidence

This example, as well as the quote with which we started the section, highlight how wider societal discourses about Islam appear to affect the way in which some British Jewish people relate to British Muslims. It is clear that some of their hesitation stems from the rhetoric of the ‘war on terror’ that is common in the mainstream mass media and public discourse, and is not at all limited to the Jewish constituency. At the same time, it appears that in addition to the general context of mainstream British/ European discourse about Islam, the way in which British Jews relate to their Muslim neighbours is mediated by their own historical memories and personal experiences of antisemitism. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1723

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This is a nuanced, paradigm-relevant point: a minority group’s relations with another minority are not direct but pass through both shared mainstream ‘war on terror’ discourse AND the group’s own historical trauma. It resists the simple ‘antisemitic Muslims’ narrative of the new-antisemitism debate and the simple ‘Islamophobic Jews’ alternative.
• XREF: Directly converses with Matti Bunzl’s ‘new antisemitism’ thesis and the book’s central comparativist project connecting antisemitism and Islamophobia. — connects to: News coverage affects attitudes with a peak two-week memory window. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 622