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maggieshalloe's review against another edition
3.0
This book was quite short so was very easy to get through, especially as a lot of what filled it was screenshotted tweets! I found it educational, I do see blatant anti-semitism regularly online and it absolutely doesn’t garner the sort of outrage and attention it should. I don’t have any issues with the message of the book, I agree with most of it, I do though have an issue with the kind of roaming around in circles style of it all. I felt like it didn’t have a set structure and sort of went off point and back on again and I found myself thinking ‘you’ve said this exact thing, just using a different example’. I found the inclusion of so many tweets a bit exhausting. It’s such an important topic, and such an important read, I just do wish it could have been executed in a different way. I mean, if you weren’t too familiar with Twitter (and I don’t just mean the app itself, I’m talking about the unspoken rules, the etiquette, the culture, the entitlement of many of its users) I feel like it’d be confusing.
So to sum up, a great educational and important book - just wasn’t structured great.
So to sum up, a great educational and important book - just wasn’t structured great.
emilynye's review against another edition
challenging
informative
fast-paced
4.5
While I wish the author would have gone a little farther in explaining some of his thoughts, the short length makes it approachable by those who probably need it the most and hopefully gives them the chance to mull things over.
jilllythebean's review against another edition
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
wannings's review against another edition
4.0
Great critique on the left's blindspot. I only wished it would have taken even more consideration on the antisemitic conspiracy theories that are popular across all political ideologies.
orlaighc's review against another edition
5.0
if you, like me, consider yourself to be an intersectional feminist, i would encourage you to read this.
revolrootion's review
5.0
This was such a heavy, but important, read. Baddiel makes an eloquent case for the erasure of antisemitism in modern culture (or rather the erasure of concern about it) and asks modern progressives to look in the mirror. I'm so glad I read this, though it deeply upset me. I genuinely think this needs to be read by everyone.