Pre-Holocaust Jew-hatred was never genocidal and did not inevitably lead there

Evidence

The Nazi state, however, in its total hatred and mass murder of the Jews, should not act as a paradigm of antisemitism as a whole. Whether continuity, at least from the medieval period, is emphasized or not, no previous example of Jew-hatred had been genocidal: it was in no way the only logical culmination of many centuries of animosity and persecution even if, without that previous history, such mass murder would have been hard, if not impossible, to explain. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 517

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Challenges teleological readings of antisemitism as a straight line culminating in the Holocaust — insists on discontinuity and complexity while conceding the prior history made mass murder explainable.