Prejudice with institutional power
State antisemitism turns anti-Jewish ideas into law, bureaucracy, policing, exclusion, or sanctioned violence.
Core Idea
When the state adopts antisemitic assumptions, prejudice becomes administrative reality. People are marked, restricted, dispossessed, expelled, or harmed through systems that claim legitimacy.
Main Pattern
The state names Jews as a public problem, then creates policies that appear orderly because they are official.
Historical Snapshot
Examples range from discriminatory medieval laws and expulsions to modern racial legislation, Soviet campaigns, and Nazi persecution.
Modern Echo
The danger point remains institutional normalization: when public authority repeats myths, private hostility can become policy and policy can license violence.