Racial theories conflated antisemitism with colonial justifications against nomads

Evidence

One consequence of the theories of an ineluctable racial difference between Semites and Aryans was the belief that the “Jewish question” could only be solved if the Jews were isolated from Gentiles either in ghettos or, more radically, expelled from the Western world. To an antisemite like Adolf Wahrmund, a professor of oriental studies at the University of Vienna, the anti-Jewish and the imperial fights were one and the same. Wahrmund advanced a pseudo-anthropological argument: all Semites, including the Jews, embodied the nomadic culture of the desert and could only interact with settled peoples such as the Europeans by robbing and enslaving them. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 136

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Edward Said’s Orientalism’s core thesis that the Orient was constructed to justify Western domination. — connects to: Anti-Semitism originates in repressed envy of Jews’ persistent nomadism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1143
• ADDENDUM: Directly extends ‘On Sacrifice’ essay’s theme of how powerful groups construct pseudo-anthropological justifications for domination.