- Identifying & understanding antisemitic tropes - Character or story that repeats across time. - Truths & traits antisemitism shares with other oppressions - Broader frame of anti-racism - ==Power + prejudice = racism== - ==[[Four 'Is' of oppression]]==. Not against one person or between two groups. - Ideological - Systems of beliefs of systems and ideas. One group superior of another. Right to control another group. Jews are malevolent, inferior, weak - Institutional - how an oppressive ideology is embedded. - - Interpersonal - How they personally mistreat other members of the group. Physical and verbal abuse. Dominant group often not consciously oppressive. - Internalised - Believing their oppression is true. Internalising. Over-compensating for the issue. Not owing money. Splitting the bill. - Unconscious bias - Pyramid of harm/ triangle of severity. Doesn't always work linearly. No-one wakes up and shoots up a synagogue. - Unconscious bias is base of this. Reflect on low-level behaviours. Radicalisation becomes more difficult if you stop the bottom - Need to target the bottom because Jews look at these and think that these behaviours are about to bring - Dogwhistle - Successfully alientates people because others can't understand why they're upset/ worried. Targeted group look paranoid. - tune our ears to hear other people's dogwhistle. - Dogwhistle words: - (((name))) - North london elite - cultural marxism - Rootless Cosmopolitanism/ cosmopolitan elite - New York humour. - "Conincidence" - Impossible to know what their intention is. - What was the impact of this. - Truths & traits specific to/ unique to antisemitism  - Antisemitism is not an oppression based on skincolour or socioeconomic impact. - Same as women, disabled. - Many Jews are white passing and middle class. - Antisemititism is framed in the positive - well connected, educated - Framing as "punching up" - Antisemitism is cyclical - Different to anti-black racism. Want to extract cheap labour. Keep black people down. Different with Jews - Jews join community - Jews gain some power - Anti-Jewish resentment grows - Jews attacked. - Often Jews appear successful and comfortable just prior to them being killed. - Antisemitism has a purpose - Scapegoats that protect the powerful. - =="The goal is not to crush us, it is to have us available for crushing" - Aurora Levins Morales. == - Not unique to antisemitism - But what is unique is that there is secret cabal/ conspiracy theory. - This has some impacts - It targets Jews - lets those responsible off the hook - stops us tackling oppressive systems - tells us lie that jews aren't vulnerable - Makes Jewish exhausted and nervous. - Antisemitism threatens democracy itself - People in power will use it to get more power - People who lose elections will use it to explain why they didn't win. - Canary in the coal mine: the impact of rising antisemitism today