Judeopessimism

English

Alternative forms

• Judeo-pessimism (rare)

Etymology

From Judeo- +‎ pessimism, by analogy with Afro-pessimism.

Noun

Judeopessimism (uncountable)

1. (neologism, sociology) 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. [2020s]
   • 2024 May 15, Shaul Magid, “Judeopessimism: Antisemitism, History, and Critical Race Theory*”, in Harvard Theological Review, volume 117, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 387:

     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.