Jews, Christians, and Muslims are belligerent brothers bound by an untenable genealogical condition

Evidence

Yet until now (current newsworthy events included), the being-together of these brothers is always already “untenable,” as Fethi Benslama explains. These remain “belligerent brothers, Jews, Christians, Muslims,” who “do not even know what their unconscious gives them.” This untenable being-together, illegible in that it never appears as such, still operates as the condition of the theologico-political, and it constitutes a first step, a passage without passage, toward a genealogy of the Abrahamic, a genealogy that the Abrahamic-”the Jew, the Arab”-broaches. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 307

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anchors the antisemitism-Islamophobia bridge the reader is building across this batch of books.
• DEEPTHINKING: The idea that the sibling war is driven by an unconscious intra-familial bond — the brothers ‘do not even know what their unconscious gives them’ — frames enmity as repressed kinship.