Alvin Bragg.”[2] With these attacks, Trump and his supporters, including Trump-supporting media outlets, tapped into deep-rooted antisemitic and racist ideas of Jewish power and Black gullibility, thus connecting antisemitism and racism. In the twentieth century, Jews would come to be seen as such supposed allies of Black Americans, exploiting them to subvert the white Christian society. Centuries later, Paul’s words would be translated into Christian law, degrading Jews’ social status. By the time European Christian powers began to expand their reach to the coast of Africa and into the Western hemisphere, their sense of superiority was firmly rooted. Jews’ social climb gave rise to the pernicious antisemitic trope of “Jewish power”: Jews’ prominent position was seen as “usurped” to the detriment of the Christian population.

Source: Washington Post June 20, 2023 20:05 UTC