Editing Antisemitism (section)

===Economic antisemitism===
{{Main|Economic antisemitism}}
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[[File:"Nebuď služobníkom žida"—Slovak propaganda poster.jpg|thumb|alt=Man kissing feet of another man with hooked nose, dropping money on his head|A World War II-era [[Antisemitism in Slovakia|Slovak]] propaganda poster exhorts readers not to "be a servant to the Jew".]]
The underlying premise of economic antisemitism is that Jews perform harmful economic activities or that economic activities become harmful when they are performed by Jews.<ref name=MeyerBrenner220>{{cite book |first1=Michael |last1=Meyer |first2=Michael |last2=Brenner |title=German-Jewish History in Modern Times: Integration in dispute, 1871–1918 |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |year=1998 |page=220 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HFFoSglsovoC&pg=PA220 |isbn=978-0-231-07476-6 |access-date=23 August 2020 |archive-date=30 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231230001150/https://books.google.com/books?id=HFFoSglsovoC&pg=PA220#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live}}</ref>

Linking Jews and money underpins the most damaging and lasting [[antisemitic canard]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jews & Money – The story of a stereotype |url=http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/jewsandmoney/default.asp |access-date=18 April 2011 |website=[[Anti-Defamation League]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110228220753/http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/jewsandmoney/default.asp |archive-date=28 February 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Antisemites claim that Jews control the world finances, a theory promoted in the fraudulent ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'' and later repeated by [[Henry Ford]] and his ''[[The Dearborn Independent]]''. In the modern era, such myths continue to be spread in books such as ''[[The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews]]'' published by the [[Nation of Islam]] and on the internet.

[[Derek Penslar]] writes that there are two components to the financial canards:<ref>Penslar p. 5</ref>{{Incomplete short citation|date=July 2022}}
:a) Jews are savages that "are temperamentally incapable of performing honest labor"
:b) Jews are "leaders of a financial cabal seeking world domination"

[[Abraham Foxman]] describes six facets of the financial canards:
#All Jews are wealthy{{sfnp|Foxman|2010|p=84}}
#Jews are stingy and greedy{{sfnp|Foxman|2010|p=89}}
#Powerful Jews control the business world{{sfnp|Foxman|2010|p=93}}
#Jewish religion emphasizes profit and materialism{{sfnp|Foxman|2010|p=98}}
#It is okay for Jews to cheat non-Jews{{sfnp|Foxman|2010|p=102}}
#Jews use their power to benefit "their own kind"{{sfnp|Foxman|2010|p=105}}

[[Gerald Krefetz]] summarizes the myth as "[Jews] control the banks, the money supply, the economy, and businesses—of the community, of the country, of the world".<ref>Krefetz p. 45</ref>{{Incomplete short citation|date=July 2022}} Krefetz gives, as illustrations, many slurs and proverbs (in several different languages) which suggest that Jews are stingy, or greedy, or miserly, or aggressive bargainers.<ref>Krefetz pp. 6–7</ref>{{Incomplete short citation|date=July 2022}} During the nineteenth century, Jews were described as "scurrilous, stupid, and tight-fisted", but after the [[Jewish Emancipation]] and the rise of Jews to the middle- or upper-class in Europe were portrayed as "clever, devious, and manipulative financiers out to dominate [world finances]".<ref>Krefetz p. 47</ref>{{Incomplete short citation|date=July 2022}}

[[Léon Poliakov]] asserts that economic antisemitism is not a distinct form of antisemitism, but merely a manifestation of theologic antisemitism (because, without the theological causes of economic antisemitism, there would be no economic antisemitism). In opposition to this view, Derek Penslar contends that in the modern era, economic antisemitism is "distinct and nearly constant" but theological antisemitism is "often subdued".<ref>Penslar p. 12 {{Incomplete short citation|date=July 2022}}</ref>

An academic study by Francesco D'Acunto, Marcel Prokopczuk, and Michael Weber showed that people who live in areas of Germany that contain the most brutal history of antisemitic persecution are more likely to be distrustful of finance in general. Therefore, they tended to invest less money in the stock market and make poor financial decisions. The study concluded, "that the persecution of minorities reduces not only the long-term wealth of the persecuted but of the persecutors as well."<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=D'Acunto |first1=Francesco |first2=Marcel |last2=Prokopczuk |first3=Michael |last3=Weber |date=2015 |url=http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/francesco_dacunto/papers/AntisemFinW_Jun14.pdf |title=Distrust in Finance Lingers: Jewish Persecution and Households' Investments |journal=Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics |number=26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107191848/http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/francesco_dacunto/papers/AntisemFinW_Jun14.pdf |archive-date=7 November 2014 |via=Haas School of Business |access-date=20 October 2014}}</ref>