Antisemitism, at this point in history, is primarily experienced as prejudice and hostility towards Jews as Jews, largely without aspects of material dispossession (such as structural unemployment) that manifest in other forms of racism. Islamophobia and racialised xenophobia has a much greater proximity to shaping policy, particularly related to immigration, integration and criminal justice.”* The suggestion here is that, because Jews are materially better off—I’m not sure what else “without aspects of material dispossession” means—than other ethnic minorities, it is a lesser form of racism.
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