Rewire.News: Racism and Anti-Semitism Are Not Intrusions of a Dark Past Into Our Present
Eric K. Ward writing for Political Research Associates reminds us of one way our pasts and presents are intertwined, noting that, in the United States, anti-Semitism “forms the theoretical core of White nationalism.” Since white supremacist ideology imagines Black people as an “inferior race,” any social or political gains they achieve—through the Civil Rights movement or via the election of a Black president—must be attributed to someone else’s efforts. The white supremacist imaginary frames Jews as a powerful secret cabal manipulating the national and global political and economic order according to their own interests.