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Where one feels the trauma of capitalism but is unable to attribute the effects to specific processes, the ‘Jew’ serves as the symbolic shorthand. fastcapitalism.uta.edu/4_1/worrell....

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The Disintegration of Fordism and the Transformation of Black Anti-Semitism in America, 1945-2005 - Mark P. Worrell - Fast Capitalism 4.1 Once abjured by all but the most recalcitrant of crackpots, it is difficult to imagine that, after 50 years, we are witnessing what may very well be a renaissance of anti-Semitism. No longer relegated to the fringes of European political thought “anti-Semitism is now genuinely global – and increasingly angry and delusional...” (Smith 1996:203). Relying on data from the Roth Institute, the U.S. State Department reports a rise in the number of what it calls “major anti-Semitic incidents” in North America as a whole (2008:11) and, importantly, recent data from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) indicate that anti-Semitism is not only on the upswing among some segments of the U.S. population but, importantly, shifting from ‘earthly’ concerns to more nebulous and sinister issues: “When ADL first began polling the American public in 1964, the predominate negative ethnic stereotypes about Jews dealt with issues of honesty and business ethics. Over time these have been … replaced in the minds of anti-Semites by perceptions of Jewish power in the U.S.” (2005:14). Not only has the theme of ‘Jewish power’ made a comeback, so has the notion of Jewish guilt for the murder of Christ. This shift from a ‘nuts and bolts’ (concrete) set of issues to a ‘cosmological’ (abstract) form of anti-Jewish demonology is evidently acute within the African American community. https://fastcapitalism.uta.edu/4_1/worrell.html