Jewish parasite

The "Jewish parasite" is an antisemitic trope used mostly by the Nazi Third Reich. It is based on the myth that the Jews of the diaspora are incapable of forming their own states, and would therefore attack and exploit states and peoples. The stereotype is often associated with the accusation of usury, and the separation of productive capital and financial capital ("High Finance").

In the Nazi period, it served to legitimize the persecution of Jews, up to the Holocaust. Some representatives of Zionism also took up the motif. They regarded a "parasitic" way of life in other cultures as an inevitable consequence of the diaspora, and contrasted it with the establishment of a Jewish state as an ideal.