Reviews tagging 'Islamophobia'

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

20 reviews

siasprout's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Genocide, Rape, Colonisation, Racism, Child death, Xenophobia, War, Torture, Islamophobia, and Religious bigotry

katharina90's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

Mandatory reading. Absolutely devastating but so educational and incredibly important. 

This historical account of the Nakba is thorough, but I didn't find it overly dense or academic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Murder, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Rape and Islamophobia

lizziaha's review against another edition

informative

5.0

This book is incredibly dense. I don’t think i retained all of the information in it, but I still learned a ton. Essential context for Israel’s current atrocities against Palestinians. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Child death, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Islamophobia, Racism, Rape, Murder, Violence, and Deportation

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

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

slow-paced

5.0

This is a book I've been meaning to read for years, but present events have pushed it to the top of the pile. This is an invaluable piece of historical analysis that will continue to inform my commitment to decolonization and anti-apartheid movements.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Colonisation, Death, Sexual violence, Deportation, Genocide, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Islamophobia, Racism, and Confinement

lettuce_read's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, and Racism

Minor: Rape

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

thecaffeinatedlibrary's review against another edition

dark informative reflective

5.0

If you’re like me, and you didn’t know a whole lot about the *actual* history between Israel and Palestine, I highly recommend picking up this informative, dark, and yet strangely hopeful book.

It is written by Ilan Pappé, an Israeli Historian who writes with cutting truth about the situation that has been unfolding since 1917. It exposes the hidden darkness behind the Zionist belief system, and analyses the multiple different battles (though battles makes it seem as though there was a fair playing field) with a blinding floodlight, laying it the facts in an incredibly accessible way.

In addition to all that, the narrator for the audiobook was excellent. they were extremely engaging, and kept me hooked for the audiobook’s entirety!

I highly recommend this one for anyone seeking to know more about Palestine. 

#FreePalestine

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Xenophobia, Death, Violence, War, Islamophobia, and Racism

ellipticalorbit's review against another edition

informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Xenophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Islamophobia

Minor: 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