Sartre begins by defining antisemitism as characterized by certain opinions: attributing "all or part of his own misfortunes and those of his country to the presence of Jewish elements in the community, ... proposes to remedy this state of affairs by depriving the Jews of certain of their rights, by keeping them out of certain economic and social activities, by expelling them from the country, by exterminating all of them ..." (p. 7) He then describes the concept that these antisemitic opinions are produced by external causes, such as the experience of objective situations involving Jews.(p.8-9)