Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial by Saree Makdisi

4.7 AVERAGE

scrosby's review

4.75
challenging emotional informative

jrpear's review

5.0
informative reflective medium-paced
Stupendously written. Excellent interlocking between historic and contemporary contexts. Dismantles counter arguments flawlessly. I don't know how you can read this book & not come out on the other side fully supporting Palestinian liberation (if you were not already). 

mad_taylh's review

4.75
challenging informative reflective medium-paced
"In this case the act of occlusion is so effective that it erases the very trace of denial even as it transacts it." 
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yours_marinia_monarch's review

4.75
challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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masterormargarita's review

5.0
challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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philip_bonanno's review

4.5
Includes just a fantastic takedown of racist scholarship in general but especially in the postscript. I liked the argument a lot and found the chapters to be generally quite tight and without much surplus material/well edited (save, perhaps the chapter on the museum which was maybe a little repetitive? Idk id have to read when I wasn’t as tired). All in all, really informative and I enjoyed it a bunch.