ABSTRACT
Daniel Boyarin's self-involved and self-indulgent "Interrogate My Love" begs for a reply which is equally self-involved and self-indulgent. People like Daniel Boyarin are either knaves or fools; either way they are dangerous and cannot be ignored. This chapter argues with Boyarin that Jews and evangelical Christians are strange bedfellows; politics as is well known makes for strange bedfellows, and the politics forced upon people by wars of survival even more so. According to Boyarin, Jews and powerful Christians are "collectively engaged in war/wars against Muslims". Boyarin's shameful use of the expression "ethnic cleansing" constitutes a blood libel in the clearest and most non-euphemistic sense of that chilling term. Moreover, Boyarin, who is so upset about being marginalized in the Jewish community, must see the prospect of being marginalized by his academic peers as too painful to bear. Daniel Boyarin is driven to batter down barriers, most notably between male and female, and between Judaism and Christianity.
