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4.37 AVERAGE
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I feel like I’ve always been an anti-Zionist and that’s how my parents gently raised me. But I could never really describe why or give any sort of academic description of my beliefs. I feel like this book really helped me get that good background! It took me so long to read just because things kept getting in the way. Reading the second half of it after reading all of these grad school books was way easier than reading the first half after having taken such a long break from non fiction.
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You should read this book.
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Perhaps my favorite of Pappe’s works this book is concise, accessible, and most importantly incredibly informative. Much of the book educated me about the history of Palestine, and particularly Israeli crimes and Palestinian resistance in the years leading directly to the current genocide in Gaza. I not only encourage people to read this book if they want to learn more, and it never is too late to learn more about anything, but to continue educating themselves about Palestine. The worst thing about this book was how prophetic it was, especially the last chapter about Gaza with Pappe declaring Israel’s treatment of Gaza pre-2023 a genocide.
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Will come back to it in its entirety in a few months
This was very well organized, and the author wrote based more on facts and sequences of events than with emotion which I think is important when it comes to gathering a well-rounded background on something. The language used was also easy to understand and follow.
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A simply excellent book. Cuts through the bullshit of Zionism in searing, intellectual and academically rigorous terms. Moral clarity and historical truth in one.
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