"This fusion, between antisemitic conspiracy theory and Islamophobic #racism suggests more than simply the cranial soup of #fascistThought, but a kind of structural homology—a racial formation to explain widening contradictions of both #capitalism and the political conjuncture."

#BenjaminBalthaser's essay on how the #islamophobia targeting the #ZohranMamdani campaign borrows from the codes of 20thC #antisemitism

https://spectrejournal.com/mamdanis-judeo-bolshevik-threat/
#USpol #NYCpol #NYC #conspiracism #othering #xenophobia

Mamdani’s Judeo-Bolshevik Threat – Spectre Journal

Benjamin Balthasar explores the representation of Zohran Mamdani as simultaneously foreign menace and inauthentic outsider, deploying both antisemitism and Islamophobia to prop up a neatly racialized version of politics.

Spectre Journal