Reviews tagging 'Murder'

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

18 reviews

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

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

matcha_cat's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Torture

kirstym25's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Murder, and War

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Police brutality

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: Racism, Violence, Murder, and Colonisation

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

prenna's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, and War

iforgotilivedhere's review against another edition

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: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism