Jews and Muslims in France never formed singular communities and never solely or primarily interacted with each other as a function of ethnoreligious identity categories. Rather, their on-the-ground interactions often took place as a function of a variety of other identifications, solidarities, and experiences. Yet, media discourse commonly constructs Jews and Muslims as homogeneous, disparate, and separate communities and their relations as oppositional and troubled. This article examines how Jews and Muslims are relationally defined and constructed in media discourse, focusing on the national dailies Le Monde and Le Figaro. My analysis reveals the discursive patterns that emerge in articles on Jews and Muslims and how these representations implicitly construct ‘Jews’ and ‘Muslims’ and their ‘relations’. In doing so, I make two main arguments about newspaper reporting on Jewish–Muslim relations in France: (1) With some exceptions, Jews and Muslims are constructed as two separate, homogeneous communities and their relations presented as tense and problematic; (2) Jews tend to be presented as fully integrated and their representation is in general positive, while Muslims are more often presented as not fully integrated – or even as at odds with French society and its values – and their representation is, at best, ambiguous and, at worst, negative.

在法国，犹太人和穆斯林从来没有形成单一的社区，也从来没有单独或主要根据种族宗教身份类别相互影响。相反，他们在地面上的互动通常是根据其他各种身份，团结和经验而发生的。然而，媒体话语通常将犹太人和穆斯林建构为同质，分散和分离的社区，而他们的关系则是对立且陷入困境。本文考察了犹太人和穆斯林在媒体话语中的关系定义和建构方式，着重于国庆日报《世界报》和《费加罗报》。我的分析揭示了关于犹太人和穆斯林的文章中出现的话语模式，以及这些表述如何隐式地构成“犹太人”和“穆斯林”及其“亲属”。在此过程中，我对报纸关于法国犹太教与穆斯林关系的报道提出了两个主要论点：（1）除某些例外，犹太人和穆斯林被构造为两个独立的同质社区，其关系表现为紧张和有问题。（2）犹太人通常被认为是完全融合的，他们的代表通常是积极的，而穆斯林通常被认为是没有完全融合的，甚至与法国社会及其价值观不一致。他们的代表充其量是，模棱两可，最坏的是负面的。