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An Abraham for Everybody
Episode 2 of BAD COUSINS has just been published. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, the web, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey all, Matan here again. It's been five years since the signing of the Abraham Accords and Donald Trump still can't shut up about AHB-ra-hahm. Neither can we, but it's really not just us and Big Orange who are obsessed. To prove the point, I and Producer Guli journeyed into the world’s most heavily militarized religious theme park, also known as the Old City of Jerusalem. Once through the gates, we asked some locals - both Palestinian Arabs and Jewish Israelis - to explain to us why the Abraham Accords are named after Abi.
As you would certainly expect if you’ve listened to Episode 1, Palestinians were extremely critical of the Accords while Israelis were mostly quite jazzed about them. But despite this clear disparity, everybody had the same answer to our main question: the accords are named after Abraham because he’s the grandfather of the Jews and the Arabs, which makes us (you know it) cousins. Of course what that means is up for interpretation, but the basic identification was a constant.
All this wouldn’t be worth demonstrating if this podcast was in Arabic or Hebrew. But it’s in English and it’s pitched at a European and North American audience, for which this is far from obvious. As we also discuss in this episode, outside the Middle East, Abraham is usually understood in a very different way, not as a literal genealogical grandfather but as more of a symbolic progenitor, and not only of Judaism and Islam but also of Christianity.
So if you think you’re observing this drama of ancient, unfathomable familial hatreds from the outside, think again. You’re in it. With Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson. Let that sink in.
With that happy thought in mind, we present you with Episode Two, “An Abraham for Everybody.” There’s a lot more packed into this half hour than we’ve intimated here, so go ahead and give it a whirl. If you’ve been looping Rosalía’s new album like we have [ed note: that’s only you Matan], you’ll be in the mood for theology anyway.
Cousinously yours,
Das BAD COUSINS Team
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We’re publishing this show in partnership with The Diasporist, an online, bilingual magazine of political criticism, cultural analysis, and new writing from in and outside of Germany.
I really enjoyed their article about antideutsch stickers in Germany.
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