Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

56 reviews

bookdragonkatie's review

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

4.5

Definitely think this is one I’ll need a physical copy of to reread and take notes. The narrator was fantastic, but it was very dense and without the ability to easily flip back and forth, I know I missed a lot of information. Still, highly recommend and believe this is an informative and necessary history for all to read and learn about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Racism, Islamophobia, and Religious bigotry

library_gremlin's review

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide and Murder

Minor: Genocide and Murder

shay43geek's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Islamophobia, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Death and Torture

careinthelibrary's review

informative sad slow-paced

I enjoyed the parts about the author's life and family most, but the historical context was also enlightening. A bit dense, but consequently full of information.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Racism, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Mass/school shootings

shaynicole's review

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and Colonisation

ndpmclean's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

I am giving this 5.0 not necessarily because I enjoyed the read, because it was tough and slow going. But I am giving it 5.0 because I think it has given me confidence in knowing more about the historical context that makes our current global situation so temultuous. This is essential reading.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

bergha1998's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

This is a heavy and important book. It was hard to see how many lies I’d been told as an American and just fully believed until October of 2023. I really liked the personal stories mixed in by the author; they did an excellent job of framing it in humanity better than if the whole book was just focused on the history. 

History, Warfare and Colonialism

“The surest way to eradicate a people’s right to their land is to deny their historical connection to it.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

amandakitz's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Rashid Khalidi's history of the occupation in Palestine demonstrates his skills as a scholar as well as the importance of proximity to the conflict to bypass propaganda. Israel and the U.S. had strengths not only in sheer military force in the region but in their PR and propaganda campaigns, turning the world against the Palestinian cause. Khalidi's work counters that narrative skillfully through personal experience, interviews, scholarship, and proximity to the conflict. 

Through the eyes of Khalidi, whose family, friends, and homeland in the Occupied Territories and in the diaspora were impacted severely by the Israeli occupation, we see an accounting of history from someone who has lived it. In his accounts of his father's and his own work in the UN and the contacts he had with the Fatah and the PLO, we see that he is not merely writing through personal experience as a Palestinian nor through pure scholarship as a leading historian in Palestinian Studies, but also as an advisor and envoy in peace talks with key leaders and politicians throughout the latter decades of the conflict. The personal, professional, and scholarly influences on his perspective form a well-rounded, clear picture of the situation and the factors at play.

Khalidi's writing style is far from dry and makes the complicated history of various Palestinian resistance groups and organizations easy to follow. The book was extremely well-organized, well-researched, and well-written, a masterclass in providing depth of scholarship without compromising accessibility. For those beginning the work of seeking the truth behind the propaganda, this is an excellent book I can easily recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and War

Crucial history of war necessarily contains descriptions of war, and crucial history of violent oppression and colonization necessarily contains descriptions of colonial violence, oppression, intentionally targeting civilians, and genocidal rhetoric, policies, and military campaigns. Engage with the understanding that, depending on your background, additional self-care and pacing may be required.

keeganrb's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

sydapel's review

challenging informative slow-paced

So glad I could make this my final book of 2023. I'm not saying that you need context or history to feel strongly about what's happening in Gaza right now, but the framework of how we've arrived at this deeply tragic moment is shown in excellent detail in this book. I admit that I was lost in many chapters (there's a lot of names and places that I couldn't keep straight), but I came away from it with more of a background on Palestine, it's people and their resistance to the Israeli occupation. I also want to briefly state that the author has done a very good job of noting the missteps that Palestinian leadership has taken since 1948, both as a result of their own ignorance and of their oppression. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Genocide, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, War, and Deportation