The Jews’ chosenness claim clashed structurally with the pan-movements’ own

Evidence

But what drove the Jews into the center of these racial ideologies more than anything else was the even more obvious fact that the pan-movements’ claim to chosenness could clash seriously only with the Jewish claim. It did not matter that the Jewish concept had nothing in common with the tribal theories about the divine origin of one’s own people. The mob was not much concerned with such niceties of historical correctness and was hardly aware of the difference between a Jewish mission in history to achieve the establishment of mankind and its own “mission” to dominate all other peoples on earth. But the leaders of the pan-movements knew quite well that the Jews had divided the world, exactly as they had, into two halves—themselves and all the others. In this dichotomy the Jews again appeared to be the luckier competitors who had inherited something, were recognized for something which Gentiles had to build from scratch. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 610

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘two halves of the world’ dichotomy — self versus all others — is Arendt’s formulation of the Other-constitution mechanism that the reader’s toolkit needs for how exclusion works.