Can someone be antisemitic even if they say they have Jewish friends?
• It is the group (or the group with some power) that a bigot hates, not necessarily all individuals. We can see this in the frequent defense of the bigot that “I have friends” who are such-and-such. This may indeed be true, but those “friends” tend to be the rejects of the hated community, and not in any way representative. For example, self-hating Jews and antisemites often form productive partnerships.
