What are the forms of European anti-Semitism?

'Jewish' Leftism undermines traditional values

Question: What are the forms of European anti-Semitism?
Position‹8 of 8: Anti-Leftist anti-semitism
Argument‹2 of 2: 'Jewish' Leftism undermines traditional values

The argument

Anti-leftist anti-Semitism is deeply rooted in both the US and Europe. US: Franklin D. Roosevelt was routinely characterized during the New Deal as being under the thumb of his Jewish aides, and perhaps even secretly Jewish himself ("Franklin D. Rosenfeld"). The notion that the African American civil rights movement was/is a Jewish conspiracy to undermine "traditional American values" goes back to the 1950s, and remains strong in present-day alt-right circles. Today's "mainstream" Republicans also obsess over various cultural bugbears who just happen to be Jewish -- from George Soros to Saul Alinsky, supposed to be the radical leftist Jew who programmed the brains of Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Europe: Tsarist Russia was obsessed with the notion of the Jewish revolutionary, and similar notions were entertained in 19th-century Germany (after 1848) and in France. In the Paris protests of 1968, there was anti-Semitic backlash against Jewish leadership in the protests. The ongoing vilification of George Soros by rightists in Eastern Europe today is a contemporary example. 19th-century European reactionaries "were certain democracy was pure folly and that the common people, whether they knew it or not, required hierarchy and authority to be happy. Jews, judging from their notable role in the Austrian and German revolutions of 1848 and their close identification with liberalism and socialism in the years that followed, seemed hell-bent on destroying the sacred bonds of the community."

Premises

[P1]Anti-leftist anti-Semitism casts Jews as the hidden hand behind progressive movements, as when FDR was smeared as secretly Jewish ("Franklin D. Rosenfeld") during the New Deal. [P2] It recurs in claims that the civil rights movement was a Jewish conspiracy and in the vilification of figures like George Soros and Saul Alinsky on the right. [P3] The same trope ran through Tsarist Russia and 19th-century Europe, where reactionaries blamed Jews and their liberalism and socialism for destroying the "sacred bonds" of community. [C] Therefore, the conspiracy that "Jewish" leftism undermines traditional values is a distinct form of anti-leftist anti-Semitism.

Counter-arguments

Two qualifications can be raised, neither disputing that this is a real antisemitic trope. First, on the substance, the 'Jewish leftism undermines traditional values' motif is a baseless conspiracy theory: it recasts the ordinary political participation of Jewish individuals across the spectrum as a coordinated ethnic project, a claim with no factual basis that the historical examples illustrate rather than support — restating the trope's persistence documents its reach but lends it no credence. Second, taxonomically, this category overlaps heavily with the sibling forms already listed: conspiracist anti-Semitism (the hidden-hand structure), anti-capitalist and anti-bourgeois anti-Semitism, and the 'Jews as traitors' motif. It is therefore arguable that 'anti-leftist' anti-Semitism is less a discrete form than a political-context variant of the same conspiratorial template, raising the question of whether the eight-way division cleanly carves the phenomenon.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P3] That the trope recurs across Tsarist Russia, 1848 Germany and the present day documents its persistence, not any truth to the conspiratorial claim it encodes, which remains baseless. [Rejecting C] The 'anti-leftist' label overlaps heavily with the conspiracist, anti-capitalist and 'traitor' forms listed alongside it, so it may be a contextual variant rather than a genuinely distinct form.