Europe’s defining conflict is internal to itself, 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.” This is why Nancy defines the task as a reflection on an “internal division.” As he makes clear, however, this interiority is the result of a history-what Nancy refers to as “the possibility of its becoming” -a becoming-internal of Europe’s conflict and the preservation of a certain integrity. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 63

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that the conflict is ‘not between Christianity and Judaism’ seems to complicate my bridge model—worth chasing exactly how internal division maps onto actual antisemitism.
• XREF: Prompts comparison to Edward Said’s Orientalism and the broader question of whether Europe’s enemy is really self-directed.