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Palestine by Joe Sacco

5 reviews

robinks's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A powerful collection of images and information about the occupation of Palestine. The comics cover a wide range of intersectional topics. Sacco also writes about and acknowledges his privileges in being able to travel safely and have comforts in Gaza. It is wild but also unsurprising that this was drawn based on experience in the early 1990s, and 30 years later, it still rings true based on news from journalists in Palestine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Child death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Confinement, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Racism, Ableism, Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Torture, Colonisation, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Antisemitism, Homophobia, Bullying, Rape, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Deportation, and Excrement

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Mass/school shootings, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Animal death, Fatphobia, and War

beanmilkcantread's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Genocide, Torture, Gore, Gaslighting, Cursing, War, Violence, Religious bigotry, Forced institutionalization, Death, Death of parent, Racism, Hate crime, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Confinement, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

Moderate: Antisemitism, Child death, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Deportation, and Blood

brookey8888's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

I’m choosing not to rate this because I don’t think it would be fair. I did learn a lot and I liked hearing about Palestinian stories and what these people went and are still going through. That being said this was told in such a confusing way to me. I also did not like the art style either. These things made it harder for me to understand and learn about some of the things mentioned. I do think this was well done, but maybe pick something else up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Torture, Deportation, Kidnapping, Murder, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Gaslighting, Genocide, Racism, Child death, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Violence, Blood, Death, and Colonisation

jhbandcats's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Absolutely devastating. I’d been wanting to read this for ages - I love Joe Sacco - and with the fighting between Hamas and Israel in Gaza right now, it seemed the perfect time to learn some history. This was written in 1992-1993. Nothing has changed except the area is even more densely packed. 

Without citing specific examples, I’ll just say the situation is horrific, it has been horrific since 1948, it will always be horrific, and I see no hope whatsoever. 

This book should be required reading for everyone - EVERYONE - right now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, War, Blood, Bullying, Deportation, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, and Torture

mscalls's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia