Medieval Christian polemicists recast Arabian Jews as traitors who deserved their fate.

Evidence

It was a feature of San Pedro’s attitude to treat the Jews of Arabia as disloyal Jews, supporters of Muhammad; their final fate was therefore all they deserved. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 541

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s racism/anti-Semitism thread — the rhetorical conflation of Jews with Muslims’ collaborators echoes Anidjar’s Jew-Arab genealogy where both groups occupy a shared enemy position in Christian discourse.