A bit of Sartre for your morning. Antisemitism is a bourgeois phenomenon.

"The majority of the anti‐Semites, on the contrary, belongs to the middle class...the "non‐producers" (employers, merchants, distributors, members of the liberal professions, parasites).

The bourgeois in fact does not produce: he directs, administers, distributes, buys, sells. His function is to enter into direct relations with the consumer; in other words, his activity is based on a constant commerce with men, whereas the worker, in the exercise of his trade, is

in permanent contact with things. Each man judges history in accordance with the profession that he follows. Shaped by the daily influence of the materials he works with, the workman sees society as the product of real forces acting in accordance with rigorous laws.

His dialectical "materialism" signifies that he envisages the social world in the same way as the material world. On the other hand, the bourgeois — and the anti‐Semite in particular — have chosen to explain history by the action of individual wills.

Do not the bourgeois depend on these same wills in the conduct of their affairs? They behave toward social facts like primitives who endow the wind and the sun with little souls.

Intrigues, cabals, the perfidy of one man, the courage and virtue of another — that is what determines the course of their business, that is what determines the course of the world."

- Extract from Chapter 1 of Sartre's book, Anti-Semite and Jew.