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it's not really "western civilization" that's structurally anti-jewish, but the specifically christian parts of european civilization, especially since the ascendency of capitalism, that are. still, most of the anti-jewish ideas that became catholic dogma in the middle ages were already present in the greco-roman world -- specifically, that jews are misanthropes (refusing to eat with and marry non-jews, which becomes the charge of clannishness and often morphs in to the charge of dual loyalty in the modern period); that jews are atheists, or more accurately, god-deniers (refusing to accept the greco-roman pantheon, which becomes the charge of denying the divinity of the toad from nazareth -- separate from the allegation of deicide); that jews actually worship pigs and/or donkeys (which becomes the charge that jews worship the devil, or at least are in league with the christian caricature of satan, making them less than human -- at different times, this dehumanization included the allegations that jews have horns and tails, a particular odor [feotor judaicus in latin], and that jewish men menstruate); that jews are irrationally stubborn about sticking to their religion in the face of the (supposed) theological superiority of greco-roman worship (refusing to accept that devotion to an invisible deity is just plain nutty, which, in christian europe becomes the impetus for intense proselytization to the point of many jewish congregations being forced to listen to sermons denouncing judaism as part of the price for being [allegedly] unmolested in general, as well as the history of totally rigged and lopsided public disputations). in the religiously severe catholic europe up to the Reformation, the jew is the original Other, who can be blamed for all sorts of social misfortunes, from crop failures to the Black Death. arguably, biological racism gets its first hints during the notorious Spanish Inquisition. the mandate of the inquisitors was to discover who among the thousands of jewish and muslim converts to catholicism at the end the Reconquista were insincere, who supposedly were secretly still practicing judaism and islam; it was only later that the inquisition broadened to include more general heresy and then witchcraft. part of the anxiety of catholic officials was mitigated by the separation of the spanish community into Old Christians (those whose families had been catholics forever) and New Christians (post-1492 converts); intermarriage and business partnerships were kept informally separate, but in various institutions discrimination was legally sanctioned (it was official spanish military policy until 1865). within just a few years, the doctrine of limpieza de sangre was officially accepted. this was the idea that there is something special about christians that is beyond theological attitudes, but is inherent and immutable in their life-force. needless to say, jews and muslims could never attain this purity/cleanliness. but all of this is still within the realm of theology rather than politics -- this would change with the coming of the Enlightenment and the introduction of an economic system based on chattel slavery of Africans in the western hemisphere, where justifications for the perpetual enslavement of human beings required some christian doctrinal gymnastics. i would argue that, with the notable example of pigmentation as stigma (which isn't wholly accurate, since many illustrations of the devil and his minions/servants show them as black [African] and/or red [Native American]), almost every aspect of what we can see as the disease of whiteness was in place in europe before the advent of the wholesale destruction of African civilizations that began with the implementation of the international slave trade.