In the days of 'There Is No Alternative', we are all Panglossian pessimists: we live in the best of all possible worlds, and it is shit.
[...] Treating anti-Semitism simply as racism pulls analysts into a search for bigots frothing with hatred for Jews, which significantly _under_estimates [...] the preponderance of anti-Semitic was of thinking across the political spectrum, while also wrongly supposing that its danger lies exclusiv…
Finally, anti-Semitism, like all conspiracy theorising, is ultimately about providing comfortable reassurance. It tells the anti-Semite that the problems in her society do not really run very deep, that they are only the work of some small cancer to be zapped while leaving a healthy body intact. It…
[...] Though Jewish embourgeoisement has been one story of the last century, anti-Semitism treats oppression as culturally explicable, which is to say it roots injustice in the ethnic deformity and personal villainy of a minority rather than in the structurally ingrained logic of social relations…
Like the Left, [...] the anti-Semite sees politics as a contest between oppressors and oppressed and claims to side resolutely with the latter. [...] anti-Semitism from slaves and the colonised reads Jews as the apex of whiteness, the highest kings of a European elite. It is, in the Nietzschean fra…
