Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
I wasnt trying to. Largely because anti semitism is many centuries older than that. But nationalism created a significant wave of it in that period and framed Jewishness as a threat to national security.

No, it doesn't explain it in France, or here in Britain. Also doesn't explain why Mussolini saw Italian Jews as Italians.

You cant expect the effect to be uniform across an entire continent. But it is one factor.

Just as Israel and their American influence has created a new wave of it in the modern era among lefties and 'progressives'.... but the anti semitic undercurrent has always been there.
Yup. All I was trying to do was show that while your modern nation state theory could be made to conveniently fit Germany, it doesn't explain Dreyfus and France.

The difference with here though is that they were chucked out in what, the 12th or 13th century, and didn't come back until Cromwell.

By which time we had those dastardly Papists as our "others". We were happy to have a Jewish Prime Minister in the mid to late Victorian era. We'd have never had a Catholic.