Reviews tagging 'Antisemitism'

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

3 reviews

pmhandley's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

An important read. While it's called "The Palestine Laboratory," the book really goes beyond Palestine, and shows how Israel enables genocide in other countries and befriends autocratic regimes with its weapons sales - including governments that are actively antisemitic, flirt with Holocaust denial and a threat to their own Jewish citizens. Israel is fine with overlooking antisemitism as long as its weapons are sold and it gets backing of its occupation on the world stage. It seems unbothered to throw non-Israeli Jews under the bus for convenience, as well as any other minority deemed an "undesirable population," like migrants trying to cross the US border or the Mediterranean. The book also shows how Israel's racism goes past anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian rhetoric. As a country, Israel has set up its border technology to keep out African migrants as well and electeds have openly voiced anti-Black sentiments and racial slurs. I do wish Loewenstein had dipped into Israel's treatment of Ethiopian Jews, which is not covered. I think it also could've used another round of editing to clean it up a bit. A lot of the same people are introduced over and over as if for the first time and it gets redundant. Eitay Mack is prominently featured but gets introduced brand new something like 3 times. Some of the sentences border on run-on. But none of this takes away from the overall message and content.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Genocide, Colonisation, War, Islamophobia, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Antisemitism

mads_jpg's review

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

4.5

A scary and therefore important read. Really lays all of Israel's defence policies out in the open to see the damage they've contributed to, not just in Palestine but globally. 

I usually avoid books that are solely focussed on war/politics since they tend to be quite dense with assumed knowledge but this was surprisingly accessible. I still struggled with some parts but it was mostly very informative and easy to understand.

Main critique is for the editor because my god were there a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes, what happened??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Islamophobia, War, Colonisation, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Stalking, Antisemitism, Death, and Murder

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, Xenophobia, Deportation, Colonisation, Gun violence, Violence, Death, Islamophobia, Hate crime, Racism, Confinement, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Blood, Torture, Medical content, Cursing, Suicide, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Gaslighting

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, Homophobia, Outing, Addiction, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Racial slurs, and Rape

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