The Arab Jew is an illegible nonfigure that resists every fixed enunciation

Evidence

Two brothers-and between them war, the political and the theologico-political-two brothers thus provide the poles of an oscillation that never quite gathers as “the Jew, the Arab,” the Arab Jew. The reading field to which the Abrahamic transports us in Derrida remains therefore that of an impossibility, a nonfigure that, in its invisibility and unreadability, reproduces and exceeds the so-called “Jewish-Muslim symbiosis,” at once ancient and new, more ancient and newer than could, strictly speaking, ever appear or become manifest. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 338

Categorization

• DEFINE: Anidjar defines his core figure, the ‘Arab Jew,’ as a nonfigure — an oscillation between two brothers that never resolves.
• XREF: This is the theoretical spine anchoring claims in the antisemitism-Islamophobia bridge books about Jews as the internal enemy mirror of Muslims as the external enemy.