Parallel racialization logics target Jews and Muslims across eras.

Evidence

One illustration of this in Britain is how during the First World War the status of the new Russian Jewish immigrants, in contrast to long-established groups, was problematized because they were not naturalized and could not therefore be conscripted. This was compounded by these refugees’ principled opposition to aligning themselves with a Czarist Russia responsible for the pogroms; paradoxically at a time when public discourse widely held that Russian socialism was the ideology of ‘the Jews’. In the contemporary period, we find that the ‘good Muslim/bad Muslim’dichotomy has achieved significant traction, especially in the ways with which boundaries of legitimate and illegitimate Muslim political descent are drawn (Mamdani 2004). These two logics of racialization are presented as enduring in Simon Weaver’s study of virtual humour (this issue). In his account, Weaver argues that logics of inclusive racialization usually employ racial stereotypes, whereas exclusion often depicts violence or removal. Drilling deeper still, Weaver shows that while the stereotypes and exclusions of Jews and Muslims presented in the humour under study are not the same, having both different histories and different trajectories, he nonetheless argues that the underlying logic of racialization is the same (and can be split into inclusive and exclusionary jokes, the former using stereotypes solely while the latter show death or removal). In his reading, anti-Muslim jokes are more active as a form of racism; they rely on contemporary events and stereotypes. In his discourse analysis, antisemitic and Islamophobic jokes are constructed through linguistic devices that resemble metaphor and other rhetorical manoeuvres, in a manner that enables humour to racialize in various scenarios. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion, 40

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the essay on complaints about immodesty going way back — both trace how moral/identity panics recur across eras with different targets but parallel structures. — connects to: Crusade rhetoric racialized Muslims as a vile and accursed race. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 12; Race was co-constituted with religion in European history. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 31; Jewish racialization varies with historical stability and splits along West-East rather than unified lines — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 39 (+18 more)
• DEFINE: Weaver’s inclusive vs. exclusionary racialization distinction (stereotypes-only vs. death/removal) is a crisp analytical framework worth remembering.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Related

• The shared underlying logic of racialization persists across Jew and Muslim targets (similarity 0.91)
• Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews. (similarity 0.85)
• Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish stereotyping operates through racialization rather than mere religious prejudice. (similarity 0.84)
• Nasar Meer — Racialization and Religion Race, Culture and Difference in the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia (similarity 0.83)
• European Jews and Muslims were jointly racialized as Semites until 1917 (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Muslim racism operates through a distinct racial logic (similarity 0.81)
• Both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations in modern Europe. (similarity 0.81)
• The trope of Islam’s fixed essence descends from European anti-Semitism. (similarity 0.81)
• Jewish racialization varies with historical stability and splits along West-East rather than unified lines (similarity 0.80)
• The vilification of Jews and Muslims is one continuous historical process (similarity 0.80)
• Debates on antisemitism and Islamophobia have developed largely apart from race scholarship. (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Muslim racism collapses diverse names, skin tones, dress, and nations into one imagined enemy. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim stereotypes recycle older racialized images of black and Asian youth across decades. (similarity 0.78)
• Racialization of Muslims is historically discontinuous and empire-contingent. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The shared underlying logic of racialization persists across Jew and Muslim targets #corroborates (1.00) — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion, 40
• Both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations in modern Europe. #exemplifies (0.95) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 100
• Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews. #exemplifies (0.95) — Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Refutations of Racism in the ‘Muslim…, 28
• Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish stereotyping operates through racialization rather than mere religious prejudice. #expands (0.90) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 700
• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics #exemplifies (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119
• Religious othering of Jews and Muslims has historically been intertwined. #corroborates (0.90)
• Current Muslim targeting extends a long history of minority-religion racialization #expands (0.85)
• Racism persists while its targets shift from black to brown and Jew to Muslim #corroborates (0.85) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 633
• The unassimilability trope once applied to Jews now targets Muslims #exemplifies (0.85)
• Muslim racialization developed relationally with other minority racializations. #expands (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 833
• Anti-Muslim racism operates through a distinct racial logic #contradicts (0.80) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 77
• European Jews and Muslims were jointly racialized as Semites until 1917 #exemplifies (0.80) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 699
• Racisms combine across racialized groups rather than dividing cleanly by target #expands (0.80)