Muslims absorbed anti-Semitic animus redirected from Jews in Orientalist discourse

Evidence

In Orientalist discourse, even when Jews and Muslims are portrayed in different ways, the category of “Oriental” remains in play. In some cases, Jews are less vilified than Muslims, and in other cases the reverse. Reina Lewis describes this as “the latent anti-Semitic aggressions that were otherwise camouflaged or side-lined by a series of periodically more overt hostilities towards the more distant and more successfully ‘othered’ people of the colonies [Muslims].” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 402

Categorization

• XREF: Nuances the reader’s monster-thesis: the Muslim monster functioned partly as a displacement-vehicle for European anti-Semitism — the image as container for what cannot be faced directly. Connects to Sartre and postcolonial theory of othering. — connects to: An English Qur’an translation inflated mentions of Jews and Christians to manufacture animus — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1887
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does the Muslim-as-other absorb animus that would otherwise target Jews, and what does that reveal about the manufacturing process?