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Palestiina by Joe Sacco

6 reviews

lionesskeeper's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Torture, Grief, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and Classism

pmileham's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Colonisation, and War

robinks's review against another edition

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

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

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

brookey8888's review against another edition

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

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

mscalls's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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