The enemy is a single relational category spanning the Jew-Arab divide

Evidence

The textual divisions that separate doctrine from polemics and theological from political treatises, the historical division that distinguishes between exegesis and practice, and last but not least, the dominant and structuring division that distances the Jew from the Arab are rendered porous by “the enemy,” a term-if it is one-that, undecidably conceptual and practical, theological and political, traverses discourses and practices, encompassing within an enormously differential, that is, relational field, Jews and Arabs and others. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 209

Categorization

• XREF: This is the theoretical spine the reader wants — the foundational claim that antisemitism and Islamophobia share a common genealogical structure as figure of the enemy.