Zionism’s secularization reinscribed the Semitic wedge separating Jew from Arab

Evidence

I cannot conclude without pointing out that as Shakespeare writes and as the separation between the two Venetian enemies is reinscribed and sedimented, what comes undone with it is the unity of the theologicopolitical. What was previously considered a complex (if difficult) unity, the coming apart of which represented catastrophe or senselessness itself (“the body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing-”), this unity of theology and politics has come apart in such a way as to become invisible even to those who argue against it. But this coming apart occurs in a particular staging, the staging of a separation that logically, historically, and rhetorically precedes the separation of theology from politics. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 554 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The religious core is inseparable from Zionism but separable from Israeli Jewish nationalism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 564; Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 435; Zionist secularization nationalized messianic myth rather than replacing it — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 315 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• The Jew-Arab separation precedes and enables the theology-politics split #complicates (0.82) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 554