The scandal made visible state-corporate interpenetration and Jewish intermediation

Evidence

The Panama scandal, which, in Drumont’s phrase, rendered the invisible visible, brought with it two revelations. First, it disclosed that the members of Parliament and civil servants had become businessmen. Secondly, it showed that the intermediaries between private enterprise (in this case, the company) and the machinery of the state were almost exclusively Jews. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 291

Categorization

• DEFINE: Arendt’s ‘rendered the invisible visible’ phrase clarifies how scandal functions as a representational mechanism exposing structural state-capital ties.
• XREF: connects to: Bank-crisis exposure predicted later pogroms and deportations of Jews. — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 30