The Judeo-Christian pair constitutes itself by excluding Islam from neighborly love.

Evidence

This is why Islam has nothing to do with love and with the love of neighbor. Not Islam, therefore, but only Judaism and Christianity assure us of the importance of the commandment to love the neighbor. The passage bears quoting again at greater length: “Love thy neighbor. This is, as Jew and Christian assure us, the embodiment of all commandments. With this commandment, the soul is declared of age, departs the paternal home of divine love, and sets forth into the world” (205/G229). In this narrative, it is not the Spirit of the World that marches on, whom Hegel famously encountered. Yet the soul of which Rosenzweig speaks does march on, “sie wandert hinaus in die Welt,” and its figures, both figures of humanity, Gestalt der Menschheit, as Rosenzweig calls them, are the Jew and the Christian (395-96/G440-41). We know then that this double figure is a split soul, but it is a loving soul, a Judeo-Christian, theologico-political soul, that has, indeed, taken its last look, its last comparative look, at Islam. This, then, is Rosenzweig’s political theology. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 496

Categorization

• XREF: The genealogical claim at its strongest: the Jew-Christian (‘loving soul’) couple is constituted against Islam. This is the corroborating anchor other Islamophobia-cluster books point back to. — connects to: The Judeo-Christian category is a mid-twentieth-century construct that erases Islam from the West — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 229; The Judeo-Christian concept emerged around WWII partly to expel Islam from the West — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 229
• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the thesis that the self-constituting brother-pair (Jew-Christian) needs an exterior enemy — parallel to the sacrificial/scapegoat logic explored in the sacrifice article.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that the very content of Judeo-Christian self-definition (love of neighbor as embodiment of all commandments) is performatively constituted by the exclusion of the Muslim other is a dense, paradigm-shifting genealogical move.