Medieval polemic ranked Judaism a greater internal threat than Islam

Evidence

If Muhammad, for instance, who at the outset was all alone, entirely uneducated, utterly impoverished, hated by his own kinsmen and foreigners alike, so far removed from our borders, and so obvious in his falsehood, could introduce so much corruption into the world on behalf of the devil-what do you think the devil can accomplish through the Jews, who are so numerous, almost all educated and most adept at trickery, so well endowed with the good life and the usuries allowed them by Christians, so loved by our princes on account of the services they provide and the flatteries they spew forth, so scattered and dispersed throughout the world, so secretive in their deceptions that they display a remarkable appearance of being truthful?! — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 200

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the antisemitism-Islamophobia bridge central to this book’s stated purpose; echoes the hierarchy of enemies claim.
• SHARE: For a friend working on comparative medieval polemic: the structural inversion where external Muhammad is God’s foe yet internal, proximate Jews are the devil’s better instruments.