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On Palestine by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

5.0

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I found this dialogue to be the most clear source of history + policy that I have read so far. Chomsky, historian from the states + a former zionist in conversation with Peppé, ~truly~ leftist israeli historian and former zionist. Charts the history of the BDS movement, arguments for and against potential solutions, definitions of ethnic cleansing, history of zionism, Palestinian resistance + intense mental grooming that accompanies theocratic ethnonationalism. Compares + contrasts several colonial projects to israel, primarily apartheid South Africa. This was written in 2015 but is applicable for this present moment + I was disturbed by how repetitive these tactics are (i.e. decrying antisemitism on campuses to silence legitimate critiques of imperialism [largely from Jewish organizers], etc). Argues this repetition will continue until the project of ethnic cleansing is complete. Unless! there is intervention from the states + other world powers.