jordanrisa's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Highly recommend for anyone who wants to get a basic understanding of Israel and Palestine. A digestible, kind and empathetic collection of first hand accounts, history and timelines that are informative but also personal and humanizing. It’s a refreshing resource with human context in a time when we are in taking so much information on social media. Written in 2021, it’s a reminder that the conflict did not start on October 7, but that there have been years of struggle long before then.
hanhantap's review against another edition
challenging
dark
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Xenophobia, Violence, Colonisation, and Islamophobia
Moderate: Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Confinement, and War
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic
evitaveda's review against another edition
🍉BOOK THOUGHTS🍉
“We will continue to raise our voices and reclaim our stories.”
A Land With A People - Esther Farmer, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky and Sarah Sills.
A Land With a People is a collection of stories, art and poems from Palestinians and Jews who have endured, fought against, or broken away from the harmful rhetoric of Zionism.
If you don’t know where to begin when it comes to educating yourself on Zionism and Palestine, this book is a great starter. It begins with a brief history section which is very helpful in explaining terms and things that have happened in the area up until about 2020/2021. Then come the stories. And the stories are so powerful. They include narratives from secular, Muslim, Christian, and queer Palestinians, as well as the journeys of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, queer, and Palestinian Jews who have rejected the Zionist narrative. Since the narrators are so diverse and their voices are so different, the book will keep you engaged from start to finish. There is also a lot of social commentary that will make you sit with your feelings and think. Reading these stories will make you see the real humans behind the news. People with hopes, dreams and futures they want to experience.
Overall, this is a very insightful read and I absolutely recommend picking it up!
Now, I will let these quotes from the book speak for themselves:
“We are Palestinians, after all. Not belonging is what we do.”
“But as Palestinians, we don’t want anyone to pity us. We want to be treated with humanity, justice, and equality.”
juliaem's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
4.0
I started reading this with my collective liberation book club before the most recent conflict erupted, and finished it last night, the day Netanyahu formally declared war against Hamas. It was pretty instructive to follow a fellow book club member's advice to compare U.S. coverage of this with other countries, now that this book has enabled me to disentangle Zionism from Jewishness and better see the purposefully hidden entanglements between Zionism, settler-colonialism, and White supremacy. This book is beautiful and necessary, and I learned a great deal while also recognizing I have much more learning to do. I just wish it had had even more poetry!
sophiacarmen29's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.25
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