Modern imperialism and antisemitism emerged together in the late nineteenth century.

Evidence

The heyday of orientalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was accompanied by even greater concern with the Jews. It is important to note that the modern versions of imperialism and antisemitism were both born at about the same time, in the second half of the nineteenth century. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 73

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to other material on how high-modernist Western categories (race, nation, imperial mission) co-articulated ‘the Jew’ and ‘the Orient’ as paired otherness.
• QUESTION: What shared structural conditions in late-19th-century Europe produced both imperial expansion and modern antisemitism at once?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 73