Meaning of Judeopessimism | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

neologism, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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