I think it does, if we argue that the two stem from the same root cause.
Understanding the root cause would surely help with a coping mechanism?
So far, the primary cause of homophobia and antisemitism is being said to be related to the difficulty in understanding what science might call an "epiphenomenon," where that word is being used to speak of a secondary phenomena that arises from standard processes but whereby the relationship between the standard processes and the epiphenomenon are difficult or impossible to surmise.
Abraham is a Gentile, a standard member of the human race, until his circumcision, where he becomes, according to the Talmud, and Jewish scripture, a new kind of species.
How does circumcision transform a Gentile into a Jew?
A homosexual is born from heterosexual processes. He can't even exist without heterosexual processes. And yet he's not a heterosexual, such that he must parasite (using that word in a scientific rather than a pejorative sense) the heterosexual body in order to even exist.
Similarly, Rabbi Hirsch is explicitly clear that a "Jew" is born on the eighth day, not the first day of birth. In Rabbi Hirsch's parlance, a Jew, just like a homosexual, must parasite (using that word in a scientific rather than a pejorative sense) the Gentile body since the mechanism that transforms the Gentile body into a Jewish body is circumcision, and not phallic, heterosexual, sex. And since circumcision can only transform a preexisting Gentile body into a Jewish body (it doesn't reproduce another body like phallic sex does) the Jew can't produce another Jewish body but can only, like the homosexual, transform a Gentile body into a Jewish body.
Where these simple truism are acknowledged, the question becomes how the homosexual comes out of the heterosexual original, and likewise how the Jewish person comes out of the Gentile person? Is it magical, mystical, merely an ideological prejudice? Or is there science that can make sense of it?
And I guess before we could answer that last question, we need to determine if homosexuality is a chosen preference, or something as natural to the cosmos as heterosexuality? Same with Jewishness. Is it a chosen preference, or is it a real, scientific, transformation of a Gentile body into something just as natural to the nature of the cosmos? We have to distinguish between chosen preferences, which are mental constructs (perhaps ideological), versus scientific realities that are hardwired into the nature --the physics ---of the world.
This latter point is important to this entire examination since there's a giant difference between mental constructs versus physical realities. Is homosexuality a preference or a physical reality? Is Jewishness a preference, a mental or ideological construct, or a physical reality? The questions are important since heterosexuality is a scientific and physical reality hardwired into the very physics of the cosmos. Gentile biology and personhood is, as the definition of humanity, hardwired into the very physical reality of the cosmos. Are homosexuality and Jewishness like heterosexuality and Gentile-ness or are they mental constructs and ideological prejudices? If someone says the former, then science must be capable of determining how the secondary phenomenon (the epiphenomenon) arises from the primary, original, phenomenon?
John