The Red Scare made Jews concrete symbols of foreign radicalism.

Evidence

The Big Red Scare turned these surreptitious by-products of the war into a thriving anti-Jewish agitation. Most commonly, of course, the nativists of 1919 identified radicalism with foreigners generally, so that anti-Semitism remained a subordinate aspect of an attack upon the larger immigrant community. Nevertheless, the Jew offered the most concrete symbol of foreign radicalism, and his significance as such increased very greatly when 100 per cent Americanism burst through the confining dikes of wartime unity. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1688

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A legal-technical limit on federal power steered the Red Scare against foreigners — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1361; Arab American activism drew surveillance paralleling Red Scare treatment of Jewish leftists — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 652; Jews were attacked simultaneously from left and right as capitalist and liberal symbols — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 388 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Arab American activism drew surveillance paralleling Red Scare treatment of Jewish leftists #exemplifies (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 652
• Fear of Germany during World War One was repurposed into anti-Semitism against German Jews #exemplifies (0.85) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1683
• Chetnik propaganda framed the Partisans as a Jewish-led foreign conspiracy. #exemplifies (0.80) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1066
• Jews were attacked simultaneously from left and right as capitalist and liberal symbols #contradicts (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 388
• Jews became a symbolic target for everything the mob hated #expands (0.75)
• The unassimilability trope once applied to Jews now targets Muslims #expands (0.70)
• Anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim imagery differed in frequency because of political threat levels #qualifies (0.70)