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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

7 reviews

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

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

dragongirl271's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

“Neither Palestinians, nor Jews, will be saved from one another or from themselves if the ideology that still drives the Israeli policy toward the Palestinians is not correctly identified. The problem with Israel was never its Jewish-ness. Judaism has many faces and many of them provide a solid basis for peace and cohabitation. It is its ethnic Zionist character. Zionism does not have the same margins of pluralism that Judaism offers, especially not for the Palestinians.”
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

A very detailed, comprehensive history of the Nakba in which Pappé holds nothing back to make sure readers know exactly what happened and just how insidious it was. Pappé dug through archives, recorded conversations, the journal of David Ben-Gurion, and more to lay out the atrocities of the Nakba and how they were allowed to happen.

When I say there's nothing really held back, I mean it. Pappé really goes for the shock factor to make us understand how brutal this was. Hiding mines in destroyed buildings to prevent Palestinians from returning. Conversations where they discuss how to present this to the West so they'll accept the war as “necessary.” Documented name changes in higher-up government officials so they sound more indigenous to the region.

Parts of the book also delve closer to the modern day to show the remnants of the Nakba on Israeli policy toward Palestinians. Although the vast majority is on the years of the Nakba.

“This book is written with the deep conviction that the ethnic cleansing of Palestine must become rooted in our memory and consciousness as a crime against humanity and that it should be excluded from the list of alleged crimes.”

First published almost 20 years ago but is as relevant as it would be if it was published 2 months ago. Just would have had even more insight into recent events leading up to the current genocide.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, War, Sexual violence, Racism, Death, Rape, Violence, Murder, Islamophobia, and Police brutality

ofbooksandechos's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Colonisation, and Genocide

Moderate: Islamophobia, Sexual assault, Violence, Child death, Confinement, Police brutality, Rape, and War

Minor: Pedophilia

kirstym25's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Murder, and Rape

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Police brutality

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

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