The New Jew required the Palestinian as its own anti-self

Evidence

This was the doubling that preoccupied Roth, but it didn’t end there, of course. Just as the Old Jews were trapped in a fraternal battle with European Christians, cast as devils onto which all evil was projected, so the New Jews required their own anti-self: the Palestinian, a locus of perpetual threat inside Israel and on its borders. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 965

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the doubling chain from the previous passage: Old Jew/Christian, New Jew/Palestinian — each identity requires its own projected devil. This is the analytic method the reader is tracking.
• SEED: Angle: communities build their New-identity doppelgangers precisely because they could not escape their Old-identity shadows — the doubling device as a general mechanism of ethno-national formation.