The vilification of Jews and Muslims is one continuous historical process
Evidence
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are both unique and similar. A yin and a yang. They are analogous in that they are both projects of majority exclusion, religious stigmatization, and racialized scrutiny by right-wing ultranationalist politicians, organized neo-Nazi hate groups, and conservative media outlets. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 482 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Second, both phenomena in the modern era have involved significant elements of racism, whether biological or cultural. In other words, both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations and have suffered significant discrimination and hostility as a result. For this reason, some organizations, such as the European Monitoring Centre for Racism and Xenophobia, have conducted studies that view the challenges of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as part of the same continuum. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 100 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Jews and Muslims occupied a shared proximity-distancing position in Christian self-definition; Passion narratives co-identified Jews and Muslims as a single enemy; Holocaust commemoration in Europe has intensified anti-Muslim prejudice (+7 more)
Related
- Both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations in modern Europe. (similarity 0.87)
- Passion narratives co-identified Jews and Muslims as a single enemy (similarity 0.86)
- Anti-Muslim racism is analytically parallel to European antisemitism against Jews as Jews. (similarity 0.85)
- Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion (similarity 0.84)
- Holocaust commemoration in Europe has intensified anti-Muslim prejudice (similarity 0.83)
- Identity politics structurally separates Muslim and Jewish anti-racism despite shared experience of denigration. (similarity 0.83)
- European Jews and Muslims were jointly racialized as Semites until 1917 (similarity 0.82)
- The trope of Islam’s fixed essence descends from European anti-Semitism. (similarity 0.82)
- Assimilated Jews who accept the dominant system become its most aggressive defenders (similarity 0.82)
- European anti-Semitism and Islamophobia mirror each other in structure. (similarity 0.82)
- Anti-Semitism secured pure nation-states while Islamophobia preserves European civilization. (similarity 0.81)
- Religious anti-Semitism need not enter the state-racism genealogy until the nineteenth century (similarity 0.80)
- Parallel racialization logics target Jews and Muslims across eras. (similarity 0.80)
- European bigotry presumes Jews and Muslims have somewhere else to go. (similarity 0.80)
- Historical forms of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hatred vary fundamentally across time (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Jews and Muslims occupied a shared proximity-distancing position in Christian self-definition
#corroborates(0.85) - Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are parallel projects of majority exclusion
#corroborates(0.85) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 482 - Both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations in modern Europe.
#corroborates(0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 100 - Jews and Muslims were co-identified as Jesus’s executioners from at least the 690s
#expands(0.80) - Passion narratives co-identified Jews and Muslims as a single enemy
#expands(0.75) - Orientalist scholarship conflates Muslims and Jews into one racial type
#corroborates(0.70) - Renaissance painting Orientalized Jews by also turbaning them like Muslims
#exemplifies(0.70) - Holocaust commemoration in Europe has intensified anti-Muslim prejudice
#exemplifies(0.60)