The Jewish-Arab enmity is fundamentally a European invention, not an indigenous one

Evidence

The history of enmity between Jews and Arabs, as Gil Anidjar so revealingly parses it, accordingly is a European history, a history long constituted within Europe and across its orbits, one the traces of which are streaked through the landscape and culture of contemporary Israel. It is a history in the (re-)making. Israel/Palestine thus revealingly figures the condition of postcoloniality, nervously straddles its fissures, on structural more than temporal registers. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 597

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Goldberg’s broader thesis about racialized religion and to Said’s Orientalism and the constructed nature of Middle East categories. — connects to: The aboriginal is a European invention, not an observed reality. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 82