Pan-movement antisemitism was severed from actual Jewish experience and followed ideological logic

Evidence

The clue to the sudden emergence of antisemitism as the center of a whole outlook on life and the world—as distinguished from its mere political role in France during the Dreyfus Affair or its role as an instrument of propaganda in the German Stoecker movement—lies in the nature of tribalism rather than in political facts and circumstances. The true significance of the pan-movements’ antisemitism is that hatred of the Jews was, for the first time, severed from all actual experience concerning the Jewish people, political, social, or economic, and followed only the peculiar logic of an ideology. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 582

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the distinctive trait of tribal antisemitism versus political antisemitism: ideology severed from experience.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Islamophobia toolkit — ideology operating independently of actual group experience is a core mechanism for how the constructed ‘Other’ works. — connects to: Antisemitism persisted even after its economic basis vanished — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 527; Anti-Semitism cannot end until instrumental Enlightenment domination itself is abolished — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 702; Wartime-region adults retained anti-Semitic views that education and economics could not erase — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 272