Europe’s constitutive division is internal, not between Christianity and Judaism.

Evidence

Nancy illuminates Europe’s division by undoing its exteriority, attending to the history of its “becoming internal.” Thus, Europe’s “internal conflict (one that is today becoming internal to Judaism and Christianity, albeit in entirely different ways) has nothing to do with the conflict … between Christianity and Judaism, nor with the conflicts that exist between all great religions.” … “At the heart of Christianity lies a specific type of conflict that is best defined as the conflict between an integrity and its disintegration” (n7). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 63

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Nancy’s claim that Europe’s central conflict is the conflict between integrity and its own disintegration, internal rather than between religions, reframes the entire Jew/Arab question as structural—worth sitting with.
• QUESTION: What would it mean concretely that the internal conflict is ‘becoming internal to Judaism and Christianity’ today? How does that manifest?