Structural anti-Semitism does not agitate against “the Jews” – but against “high finance”, “the East Coast” and “the plutocrats”. Or against “the animal”. The anti-Semitic dehumanization is particularly perfidious, because Jews are declared fair game. This is illustrated by examples from the right-wing rock scene. “Jewish parasite”, “Judensau”, “Satan’s snake Judah”: In the history of anti-Semitism, animal metaphors and animal comparisons have been elementary stylistic devices for centuries to dehumanize Jews. As part of her dissertation, the sociologist Monika Urban dealt with anti-Semitic animal metaphors in ancient and middle history, in the literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
