Jewish-Arab enmity is fundamentally a European-imposed historical construction

Evidence

The history of enmity between Jews and Arabs, as Gil Anidjar so revealingly parses it, accordingly is a European history, a history long constituted within Europe and across its orbits, one the traces of which are streaked through the landscape and culture of contemporary Israel. It is a history in the (re-)making. Israel/Palestine thus revealingly figures the condition of postcoloniality, nervously straddles its fissures, on structural more than temporal registers. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 597 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ottoman-era Jewish-Arab distinctions hardened only after Israel’s founding displaced Palestinians — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 170; Europe rendered its own role in the Jew-Arab enmity invisible to itself — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 58; The Jewish-Arab enmity is fundamentally a European invention, not an indigenous one — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 597 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Jewish-Arab enmity is fundamentally a European invention, not an indigenous one #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 597