No Jews were actually involved in the Panama bribes

Evidence

There were no Jews either among the bribed members of Parliament or on the board of the company. Jacques Reinach and Cornélius Herz, however, vied for the honor of distributing the baksheesh among the members of the Chamber, the former working on the right wing of the bourgeois parties and the latter on the radicals (the anticlerical parties of the petty bourgeoisie). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 288

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets the factual baseline Arendt uses to show the corruption was retroactively reframed as a Jewish crime — the mechanism of scapegoating antisemitism.