Christianity creates a new enemy by collapsing neighbor into enemy

Evidence

Having generalized the notion of the enemy as the name of an analogy and of an inclusion, having made the neighbor and the object of Christian love into an enemy, Jesus may have failed to abolish the distinction between self and other, may have failed to put an end to enmity. But Jesus did succeed in creating a new kind of enemy by establishing a new zone of indistinguishability: the enemy as neighbor and the neighbor as enemy. More precisely put, with the commandment to love the enemy, the neighbor, the fellow man, becomes the enemy. With Jesus, then, we witness the becoming-enemy of the neighbor. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 151

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘becoming-enemy of the neighbor’ is the load-bearing genealogical move that later chapters will hang the Jew/Arab conflation on — anchors the whole Islamophobia-antisemitism bridge. — connects to: The threat to American Christianity may come from within, not without — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 48; Power-over-others Christianity repeatedly drives believers toward atrocities — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 65
• QUESTION: How does this becoming-enemy of the neighbor at the Christian origin relate to the later theological-political production of the Jew/Arab as enemy figures? The mechanism named here needs tracing forward.