Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Le nettoyage ethnique de la Palestine by Paul Chemla, Ilan Pappé

34 reviews

aliciawithoutkeys's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and War

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: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, and Deportation

Moderate: Slavery, Mass/school shootings, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Gore and Pedophilia

xwritingstoriesx's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.75

I can't put into words how disturbed I am. I just don't think anything I could say would suffice. These quotes really epitomise just how inhumanely these innocent civilians were treated and still are treated to this day.

"Since the beginning of the Intifada in September 2000 over 2,500 children have been arrested."

Official Declaration by the Arab League, 9 January 2006
I also just learned that the Israeli military has arrested over 13,000 minors between 2000 and 2024. Given what I've been reading, I sincerely doubt that these children are treated well. To grow up in an open air prison and then to suffer from further unlawful detainment, I cannot even begin to imagine what the long-term effects are.

"The biological unit he (Ephrahim Katzir) led together with his brother Aharon started working seriously in February. Its main objective was to create a weapon that could blind people. . . Katzir suggested using it on human beings."

This quote in particular reminded me of experiments conducted in Nazi concentration camps and within Unit 731. 

"The Jewish soldiers who took part in the massacre also reported horrific scenes: babies whose skulls were cracked open, women raped or burned alive." 

this quote describes the Massacre in Dawayima. 
Innocent babies and children oppressed under such a horrific regime that they are unable to survive it.

The final quote which is the very worst of all, recounts the rape, torture and murder of an innocent twelve year old child. 

"On 12 August 1949, a platoon of soldiers in the Negev. . . captured a twelve-year-old Palestinian girl and locked her up for the night in their military base near the Kibbutz. For the next few days she became the platoon's sex slave as the soldiers shaved her head, gang-raped her and in the end murdered her. . . On 29 October 2003, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz publicised the story based on the testimonies of the rapists: twenty two soldiers had taken part in the barbaric torture and execution of the girl."

What I've read over the last few days has turned my stomach. These people and their descendants get to live a life of privilege, serving little to no time for their crimes against innocent civilians and it is high time that justice is served.  Free Palestine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Genocide, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, and War

nat_montego's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Police brutality, and War

library_gremlin's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Racism, Rape, Xenophobia, and Sexual harassment

sarah_js's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.25

A horrifying and often robotic account of the Nakba. Important firsthand accounts from Ben Gurion’s diary. Very well-researched but too cold a telling of the unimaginably cruel, indisputable ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people from Palestine over the 20th century, still ongoing today. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, and War

crybabybea's review against another edition

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

kirishanthy's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and War

jiao_li's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Torture, and War

curtiswastaken's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, Xenophobia, and War