State favor toward wealthy Jews aligned with legal discrimination against poorer ones

Evidence

Thus a perfect harmony of interests was established between the powerful Jews and the state. Rich Jews wanted and obtained control over their fellow Jews and segregation from non-Jewish society; the state could combine a policy of benevolence toward rich Jews with legal discrimination against the Jewish intelligentsia and furtherance of social segregation, as expressed in the conservative theory of the Christian essence of the state. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 135

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to how elites manage colonized/subjugated groups through divide-and-rule hierarchies — relevant to the later Islamophobia readings on how states co-opt a privileged minority class against the rest.