Monotheism’s perceived foolishness and threat fuel anti-Semitic violence.

Evidence

Their laughable faithfulness to the One God makes the Jewsin the view of the anti-Semites, not in realitysimultaneously ungainly and dangerous. The killing of madmen is the key to the Jewish pogrom. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1283

Categorization

• QUESTION: Interesting compression: the Jew and the madman are collapsed into one figure. Worth chasing Horkheimer’s fuller theory of why the heretic/madman threatens the practical order.