Every rival framing of the conflict reinscribes unexamined Jew-Arab distinctions

Evidence

Whether one speaks of”Israelis and Palestinians” (with nationalism as the primary factor), “Jews and Muslims” (with religion as the primary factor) or “Jews and Arabs” (with poised, so-called “democratic” politics on one side and “fanatical” religion on the other), one therefore is never simply mistaken, but maintains instead a state of affairs that, institutionalized by the state of Israel, reinscribes invisible or uninterrogated distinctions between and within religion and politics and between and within “Jew” and ”Arab.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 784

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the batch’s scrutiny of how naming the adversaries presupposes the very separation it claims to describe.