Growing Up Different. Munich changed a lot of things for me - a podcast by Abe Abdelhadi

The 1972 Munich Olympics was a watershed moment in world history. Black September took 11 Israeli athletes hostage and the result was not as the Germans would have hoped, “nobody wanted dead Jews in Germany.” As a 9 year old boy, I was faced with who my parents were, specifically my dad. It was the first time I had to admit to myself that yes, I was “different.” As life went on, there were a lot of things I had to deal with in this regard. I began to learn that we, as a nation, are the victims of propaganda. American Exceptionalism, however, ignores the victims of imperialism. We’ll be covering a lot of that later but for now, I was 9…