guise of defending traditional "values," while rarely including actual Jewish perspectives in those debates. They say it’s a way to protect “Western values.” When all three religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-originated in the Middle East and share the same "Abrahamic"

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root. The claim that "Judeo-Christianity" protects Western values relies on several logical shortcuts that ignore these shared origins. Historically, 19th-century Europeans grouped Jews and Muslims together as "Semites" or "Orientals"—effectively labeling both as non-European. To
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turn "Judeo-Christian" into a "Western" brand, proponents had to "de-Orientalise" Judaism's Middle Eastern roots, selectively claiming it as part of the West while leaving Islam behind in the East. Proponents argue that because Christianity shaped European history (laws, art,
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