Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

28 reviews

niksnook's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Well written and well researched. It a great non-Western perspective on Palestine, especially amidst all the Israeli and US propaganda.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Death, Rape, Child death, Genocide, Racism, Antisemitism, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and War

walkingcha0s's review

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Religious bigotry, Violence, Racism, War, Gun violence, Colonisation, Death, Physical abuse, Murder, Child death, Islamophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, and Torture

megnut's review against another edition

dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Racism, Xenophobia, Violence, Deportation, Death, War, Emotional abuse, and Colonisation

Moderate: Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Torture, Rape, and Genocide

megthecatlady's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

3.5

I'm not sure why, but I was expecting this book to be less military heavy. I understand the role of the military, but it felt like the vast majority of this book was a play by play of every military action from Israel. 

That being said, I did learn a lot about the history of Israel and Palestine and I took away a lot from this book. However, it was definitely like a textbook. I think I will look for more succinct summaries that focuses more on the lives of people impacted than a military playbook. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Islamophobia, Genocide, and Death

Moderate: Violence and Rape

aliciawithoutkeys's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Rape, Genocide, Sexual violence, and Racism

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

So much important information that is shared pretty quickly. It was clear to follow how the ethnic cleansing began and cited many sources. I found some of the people and cities sometimes difficult to keep track of but a great resource to hold accountable the atrocities 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Body horror, Torture, Blood, Deportation, Genocide, Police brutality, Racism, and Rape

Moderate: Colonisation, War, Mass/school shootings, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Slavery

Minor: Gore and Pedophilia

xwritingstoriesx's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.75

I can't put into words how disturbed I am. I just don't think anything I could say would suffice. These quotes really epitomise just how inhumanely these innocent civilians were treated and still are treated to this day.

"Since the beginning of the Intifada in September 2000 over 2,500 children have been arrested."

Official Declaration by the Arab League, 9 January 2006
I also just learned that the Israeli military has arrested over 13,000 minors between 2000 and 2024. Given what I've been reading, I sincerely doubt that these children are treated well. To grow up in an open air prison and then to suffer from further unlawful detainment, I cannot even begin to imagine what the long-term effects are.

"The biological unit he (Ephrahim Katzir) led together with his brother Aharon started working seriously in February. Its main objective was to create a weapon that could blind people. . . Katzir suggested using it on human beings."

This quote in particular reminded me of experiments conducted in Nazi Germany and within Unit 731. 

"The Jewish soldiers who took part in the massacre also reported horrific scenes: babies whose skulls were cracked open, women raped or burned alive." 

this quote describes the Massacre in Dawayima. 
Innocent babies and children oppressed under such a horrific regime that they do not live to survive it. 

The final quote which is the very worst of all, recounts the rape, torture and murder of an innocent twelve year old child. 

"On 12 August 1949, a platoon of soldiers in the Negev. . . captured a twelve-year-old Palestinian girl and locked her up for the night in their military base near the Kibbutz. For the next few days she became the platoon's sex slave as the soldiers shaved her head, gang-raped her and in the end murdered her. . . On 29 October 2003, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz publicised the story based on the testimonies of the rapists: twenty two soldiers had taken part in the barbaric torture and execution of the girl."

What I've read over the last few days has turned my stomach. These people and their descendants get to live a life of privilege, serving little to no time for their crimes against innocent civilians and it is high time that justice is served.  Free Palestine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Child abuse, Genocide, Islamophobia, Child death, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, War, and Xenophobia

nat_montego's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

Moderate: Rape, War, Racism, and Police brutality

library_gremlin's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Genocide, and Murder

Minor: Xenophobia, Sexual harassment, Racism, and Rape

sarah_js's review

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.25

A horrifying and often robotic account of the Nakba. Important firsthand accounts from Ben Gurion’s diary. Very well-researched but too cold a telling of the unimaginably cruel, indisputable ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people from Palestine over the 20th century, still ongoing today. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, War, and Murder