Anti-Semites gather to celebrate the moment when authority lifts the ban; that moment alone makes them a collective, constituting them as a community of kindred spirits. This orgiastic celebration of authority is paradoxical in that it seeks to place the oppressed nature of the subject-less individual into rebellion against domination, but paradoxically, that rebellion is placed directly in the service of domination
Adorno and Horkheimer, on how figures like Trump rely on the lure of being unrestrained, i.e. unrestrained in their attitude against Muslims. Fascism has to be defined very precisely by this lure of no longer bothering about the appearance of civility. In this regard fascism is inextricably structurally anti-Semitic and its first signs show in the steep increase in hate speech and hate crimes against Muslims witnessed in 2016.Â
