| by Michael S. Broschowitz

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Hermetic Hatred: How Antisemitism’s Architectural Framework Survives Theology, Politics, and Progress examines antisemitism not as sporadic prejudice, but as a sophisticated ideological architecture that has preserved its structural integrity across nearly two millennia while adapting its surface manifestations to diverse historical contexts. 

Through extensive analysis of theological treatises, institutional records, legal proceedings, and contemporary case studies, this comprehensive study traces how the interpretive frameworks first systematized in medieval Christian theology evolved into modern secular forms that operate across the political spectrum—from far-right conspiracy movements to progressive institutions explicitly committed to social justice. The research reveals how antisemitic infrastructure achieves its most dangerous expression through institutional legitimization, creating permission structures that enable broader societal acceptance while utilizing sophisticated defensive mechanisms that systematically convert evidence of discrimination into proof of Jewish manipulation, rendering the system remarkably resistant to conventional anti-bias interventions and empirical refutation.

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