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Judeopessimism
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English
Alternative forms
en Judeo-pessimism rare
Etymology
From en Judeo- pessimism, by analogy with en Afro-pessimism.
Noun
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en neologism sociology The tendency to view en antisemitism as en constitutive of human civilization; en summarizing Jews as en eternally doomed to live in en substandard conditions, such as always being surrounded by a hostile population. 2020s
en Shaul Magid Judeopessimism: Antisemitism, History, and Critical Race Theory* Harvard Theological Review 117 2 Cambridge University Press 15 May 2024 387 10.1017/S0017816024000130 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.