Racial / Ethnonational
Racial antisemitism turned Jewish identity into ancestry, blood, or nationhood rather than belief.
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The idea
This modern form claimed that Jews could not simply convert, assimilate, or become equal citizens because Jewishness was treated as permanent biological or ethnic difference.
The recurring move
The recurring move is naturalization: social myths become claims about heredity, purity, destiny, and the health of the nation.
Germany · A new story of exclusion
In the late nineteenth century, racist politicians portrayed Jews as a separate, supposedly unchangeable race. That claim was false. It recast an older religious prejudice as a story about ancestry and national belonging, allowing exclusion to persist even when a person changed religion.
About this Tree
The taxonomy is adapted from JewHateMap. Each topic includes a sourced country story. Connections help explain related ideas; they do not establish an inevitable chain of events.