Xenophobia, not class or clerical animus, proved the most durable form of French antisemitism.
Evidence
The only brand of French antisemitism which actually remained strong, and outlasted social antisemitism as well as the contemptuous attitudes of anticlerical intellectuals, was tied up with a general xenophobia. Especially after the first World War, foreign Jews became the stereotypes for all foreigners. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 173
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: The foreign-citizen-as-stereotype mechanism parallels how the nation-state later targets outsiders — relevant to Islamophobia’s focus on citizenship and the stranger.
Related
- Antisemitism stayed national where it lacked an imperialist politics to exploit it (similarity 0.81)
- French antisemitism stayed bounded because it lacked supranational ambitions (similarity 0.79)
- Nineteenth-century French antisemitism stayed within limits nationalist and chauvinist tradition imposed (similarity 0.79)
- Political and ideological antisemitism took their clearest forms in France and Austria respectively (similarity 0.79)