Explain to me the evolution of Jewish prejudice

I would only add that the Dreyfus affair exposed a very ugly strain of thought on the right, and that being exposed as anti-Semitic merely led the rightists to openly embrace their anti-Semitism. And that's why it got worse.
On the other, hand it did have a galvanizing effect on the left, and Clemenceau and the radicals eventually prevailed. I would say that the overall effect was to benefit the left politically, but that it pushed the right in a very nasty direction, not just in France but all over continental Europe.
 
Many supporting Dreyfus were French patriots who could do the math and realizeed Dreyfus being innocent meant a traitor remained in a very high place in the French military.
 
I would only add that the Dreyfus affair exposed a very ugly strain of thought on the right, and that being exposed as anti-Semitic merely led the rightists to openly embrace their anti-Semitism. And that's why it got worse.
On the other, hand it did have a galvanizing effect on the left, and Clemenceau and the radicals eventually prevailed. I would say that the overall effect was to benefit the left politically, but that it pushed the right in a very nasty direction, not just in France but all over continental Europe.

Many supporting Dreyfus were French patriots who could do the math and realizeed Dreyfus being innocent meant a traitor remained in a very high place in the French military.
So the Affair helped decrease anti-semitism in France? Whbat could have happened in a TL without the Affair then?
 
So the Affair helped decrease anti-semitism in France? Whbat could have happened in a TL without the Affair then?

I don't think "decrease" is the right word. Its more a question of polarisation: some people who might have been mildly anti-semitic reevaluated their views and did realise they were wrong but on the other hand, those views became amplified in others. In other words, depending in which social circle you moved through, anti-semitism became either wholy acceptable (or even encouraged) or wholy unacceptable.
 
I don't think "decrease" is the right word. Its more a question of polarisation: some people who might have been mildly anti-semitic reevaluated their views and did realise they were wrong but on the other hand, those views became amplified in others. In other words, depending in which social circle you moved through, anti-semitism became either wholy acceptable (or even encouraged) or wholy unacceptable.
Which group governed politics in the long run after that?
 
The progressives, I'd say. Don't forget that Leon Blum (who was Jewish) could become premier minister in France when a Jewish chancellor in Germany was something improbable.
 
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