ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the constitutive role of hostility towards the body, sexuality, and corporeality in the ideological entanglement of antisemitism and sexism. It argues that antisemitic fantasies are deeply sexualised and rely on gendered stereotypes that cast Jews as transgressors of binary gender and sexual norms, thereby linking antisemitism to misogyny and antifeminism. Tracing these patterns from the fin de siècle through National Socialism to the Islamist massacres of 7 October, the chapter shows how Jews and women function as projection screens for ambivalent desires that are simultaneously repressed, feared, and violently sought. Central to the argument is the claim that antisemitism and sexism operate through contradictory images of sexuality: hypersexuality and impotence, desire and disgust, fascination and annihilation. Drawing on Critical Theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist scholarship, the chapter interprets sexualised violence, rape, and the erasure of gender as extreme expressions of a necrophilic ideology in which domination culminates in the destruction of bodies. The analysis of 7 October demonstrates how misogynistic antisemitism converges in conflict-related sexual violence, revealing rape not merely as a weapon of war but as a drive-economic and ideological act of extermination directed against life, emancipation, and freedom itself.
