ABSTRACT
This epilogue synthesises the book's central arguments and advances a Critical Theory–informed reconceptualisation of intersectionality through the lens of antisemitism. Rejecting calls to abandon intersectionality altogether, it argues instead for critically reclaiming it as an ideology-analytical tool rather than an identity-political framework. The chapter contends that antisemitism is uniquely suited to such a reconceptualisation, as it operates as an anticategorical and deeply intersectional ideology that simultaneously embraces notions of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation. Unlike other ideologies of domination that rely on fixed binaries, antisemitism constructs Jews as embodying non-identity and boundary transgression, functioning as a delusional response to unresolved social and psychological ambivalences characteristic of modernity.
Drawing on Adorno, Horkheimer, and feminist critiques of National Socialism, the epilogue demonstrates that the entanglement of antisemitism with sexism, homophobia, nationalism, and distorted critiques of capitalism was already a central concern of early Critical Theory and anticipates later intersectional insights into multifaceted domination. It argues that contemporary identity-political and postcolonial versions of intersectionality often obscure or reproduce antisemitism by affirming rigid categories or projecting anti-identitarian negativity onto Jews and Israel. Against this, the chapter proposes an emancipatory, Critical Theory–based intersectionality focused on analysing intersecting ideologies of domination and grounded in universal principles of individual freedom, gender equality, and resistance to authoritarian and eliminatory movements, including Islamism and exterminatory antizionism.
