Nineteenth-century scientific racism reframed antisemitism as a rational natural response.

Evidence

Moreover, the growth of scientific racism and race-influenced nationalism from the nineteenth century gave added weight to the idea that antisemitism was a rational and natural reaction to the essential difference of the Jew. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 483

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nineteenth-century racial thought about Jews was neither uniform nor straightforwardly exclusionary. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 510