Judeopessimism

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noun

The tendency to view antisemitism as constitutive of human civilization; summarizing Jews as eternally doomed to live in substandard conditions, such as always being surrounded by a hostile population.

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Meanings

nounJudeopessimism (uncountable)

alternative rare Judeo-pessimism

  1. neologismuncountablehuman sciencesThe tendency to view antisemitism as constitutive of human civilization; summarizing Jews as eternally doomed to live in substandard conditions, such as always being surrounded by a hostile population.First known use 2020s
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    This brief analysis of Berlin’s The Remnant of Israel, confronting the new term “antisemitism” and its meaning, points to some examples of what I am calling Judeopessimism, which makes claims about antisemitism that are akin to the political ontology of anti-Blackness that we find in some Afropessimists.

    2024 May 15, Shaul Magid, “Judeopessimism: Antisemitism, History, and Critical Race Theory*”, in Harvard Theological Review, volume 117, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 387

Origin

From Judeo- + pessimism, by analogy with Afro-pessimism.

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