A review by moonyreadsbystarlight
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

informative

2.75

 This was kind of tough to rate. I'm not really looking to write a whole essay about it. But I was mostly underwhelmed. It does have some information on political decisions people in the US government have made and it has some information about Palestine's history. However, I don't think it went far enough with any of it. While I know that the title is about how "progressives" (Democrats) are not backing Palestine and how that is inconsistent with their values, I still expected it to go further. I was expecting a larger thesis tying it into other inconsistencies (of which there are many) or even tying it into the global picture of how countries are interacting with Palestine, or at least a call to action on how to address the inconsistencies. None of those things happened. While the authors are pointing out the Democrat's inconsistencies, I didn't get any idea of the authors' positions. It felt very disconnected in this regard.  I also don't like how it went back and forth through time -- it felt repetitive.