Muslim-Jewish relations in France were not always enmity or solely about Israel-Palestine
Evidence
Yet the contributions of Gilroy, Rothberg and Silverman remain at a broad-brush level of cultural analysis; arguably an empirical historical approach can add something further. Equally, recent historical works by Maud Mandel and Ethan Katz have pertinently questioned the popular notions that Muslim–Jewish relations in France either have always been characterised by enmity, or can be understood solely as a function of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, or indeed only involved people whose primary self-identification was either Muslim or Jewish. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1334
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: what concrete historical episodes show Muslim-Jewish cooperation in France prior to the 1980s that the popular narrative erases?