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Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation
Sim Kern
4.68 AVERAGE
66 reviews for:
Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation
Sim Kern
4.68 AVERAGE
challenging
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inspiring
medium-paced
challenging
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inspiring
reflective
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This was a very easy read to better understand the genocide in Palestine and how to support folks there and stand up for them in debates. I appreciate Sim for making it easy and dare I say fun (?!) to understand a horrifying and complex situation. I feel much better equipped to dialogue with Zionists than I did before.
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emotional
hopeful
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emotional
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reflective
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dark
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If you are someone, or know someone, who would like to learn more about Palestine from the perspective of a Jewish organizer, this is the book for you. Kern does an excellent job of breaking down ‘myths’ about Israel and the United States and delivering them in a comprehensible manner while also wrestling with their own identity as a Jewish person. TLDR; free Palestine and all occupied spaces
“Our home was bombed, our lives were displaced, and our childhood was killed… what is the fault of these children in this displacement? Stop the aggression against Gaza. We have the right to live like all people. Leave us to continue our dreams.” - Nour Mattar, aunt of a one-day old baby in Gaza killed by an IDF siege on their tent.
“Our home was bombed, our lives were displaced, and our childhood was killed… what is the fault of these children in this displacement? Stop the aggression against Gaza. We have the right to live like all people. Leave us to continue our dreams.” - Nour Mattar, aunt of a one-day old baby in Gaza killed by an IDF siege on their tent.
Immensely appreciated the deconstruction of hasbara, even if you don’t agree with all of the author’s opinions I sincerely ask that you to read this book because it is unlike anything I’ve ever read in the best ways. Free Palestine 🇵🇸❤️
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inspiring
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I finished this in a single day. That is probably the easiest way to convey just how well written, eye opening, and engaging this book is. I’m not a frequent non-fiction reader; especially of the non-poetry or memoir variety (I’m trying to be better about this!) so the fact that I didn’t have to “assign” any part of this to myself as a sort of chapter-a-day reading speaks measures.
Sim does a fantastic job of breaking down a lot of complex information into accessible chapters and sections that lead you along this important path of discovery. I learned more than I expected to as someone who has been reading Palestinian books a lot over the past couple years.
Also I annotated in a way that I do not normally feel compelled to. I can tell this is a book I’ll be returning to and hopefully lending out.
Sim does a fantastic job of breaking down a lot of complex information into accessible chapters and sections that lead you along this important path of discovery. I learned more than I expected to as someone who has been reading Palestinian books a lot over the past couple years.
Also I annotated in a way that I do not normally feel compelled to. I can tell this is a book I’ll be returning to and hopefully lending out.