This article analyzes state-led antisemitism and its role in justifying racist policies in Germany, suggesting a troubling authoritarian trend.
Tracing the authoritarian and repressive reaction to protest in solidarity with Palestine in contemporary Germany, the article shows how this reaction is driven by a complex set of tendencies, including an official, state-led anti-antisemitism that increasingly centers on “Israel-related antisemitism” and the symbolic “outsourcing” of antisemitism to migrant populations. As a result, anti-antisemitism in its currently hegemonic form functions as a cover for white supremacist, ethnonationalist, and antimigrant discourses and policies that constitute a form of state racism in the name of Staatsräson.
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