Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

5 reviews

crybabybea's review

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

Extremely detailed history of the Nakba of 1948. Ilan Pappé makes the argument that the Nakba was a planned ethnic cleansing event, something that has long been debated and denied by Zionists and their sympathizers. Pappé brings a unique perspective to the issue as a Jewish scholar who renounces Zionism.

I only wish the writing was a bit more accessible, this was an extremely hard book to get through because of how detailed it was - the majority of the book was a repitition of stats and events that jumbled together in my mind and made it hard to follow. That being said, I do think the detail is incredibly important in remembering the Palestinian people whose stories have been lost to history and propaganda.

An important book in understanding the Palestinian struggle for liberation that I'm glad I read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Colonisation, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, War, Islamophobia, Murder, Racism, Torture, Slavery, and Violence

aloozahra's review

challenging dark informative tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Antisemitism, War, Genocide, Islamophobia, Hate crime, and Colonisation

bibliodiversidad's review against another edition

4.5

La única razón por la que no puedo calificar cinco estrellas a este increíble libro es porque durante las dos semanas que me costó terminarlo deliberé sobre la opción de directamente dejarlo por la angustia que me causaba. Angustia de leer historias que han sido vividas y sufridas en verdad por más inimaginables que, quisiéramos, puedan parecer.

Es, sin lugar a dudas, un libro completamente necesario de leer por más desgarrador; es imposible seguir ocultando una realidad irracional y desaforada como la que pretende reescribir el movimiento sionista.

A pesar de la trepidación que supo generar esta lectura (y la actual situación en Palestina), me incitó a priorizar el estudio del caso que engloba Israel y sionismo, judaísmo, cristianismo, capitalismo, colonización, etc. Y si bien me quedo con un mal gusto en la boca al terminar el libro, no es por nada en absoluto culpa de Pappe, más bien, me da un poco de alivio y, a la vez, me hace sentir peor cuanto supo humanizar a los palestinos nativos, reconocer y honorar sus historias, aunque a eso le siguiera la tragedia.

Espero que muchísima más gente se digne a leer este libro de una buena vez y sepan reconocer la ilegitimidad ética de un Estado colonial tanto como fue y sigue siendo en las historias de todos los continentes y países invadidos, explotados y genocidados del mundo.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Colonisation, War, Genocide, Hate crime, Child death, Racism, Xenophobia, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Torture, Islamophobia, Rape, and Sexual violence

Minor: Police brutality

murve's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia and Genocide

Moderate: War, Genocide, Islamophobia, Hate crime, Violence, Torture, Racism, and Rape

iforgotilivedhere's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Not rating non fiction especially something that talks about the genocide of Palestinians.
#freepalestine

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Religious bigotry, Blood, Hate crime, Classism, Genocide, Racism, War, Violence, Antisemitism, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Body horror, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Child death, and Child abuse