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A review by books_ergo_sum
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick
informative
reflective
5.0
History has proved this book so correct that it has to get 5 stars. And if I had read this book a year ago, I probably would have thought it was exaggerating 🙃
Written at the end of a Trump term just as Biden was about to take office, the message was basically this: don’t count your chickens before they hatch. Or,
▪️ Trump’s pro-Israel politics, although less subtle than most of his predecessors, was merely a continuation of decades of Democrat and Republican policy (despite the illegality of the occupation and its many human rights violations), and
▪️ all signs pointed to Biden continuing this bipartisan support of Israel so… peeps who care about human rights, don’t get too excited 🤷🏻♀️
It was written for a specific audience: those liberal centrists and lefties who think Black Lives Matter, occupation is wrong, human rights are important, racism is bad, and the cruel treatment of innocent people by the police or military needs to gtfo—yet don’t pressure their political leaders to do anything about the US’s involvement in Palestine.
Aka, the PEPs: Progressive Except for Palestine.
And yeah. I don’t think history could have proved this book more completely and utterly correct. All the warnings came true. And there was just something about reading a book that was so carefully and cautiously constructing an argument for an audience it assumed wouldn’t believe it... To now read it when the entire world has first-hand knowledge that this whole argument is completely valid. It was a lot.
Written at the end of a Trump term just as Biden was about to take office, the message was basically this: don’t count your chickens before they hatch. Or,
▪️ Trump’s pro-Israel politics, although less subtle than most of his predecessors, was merely a continuation of decades of Democrat and Republican policy (despite the illegality of the occupation and its many human rights violations), and
▪️ all signs pointed to Biden continuing this bipartisan support of Israel so… peeps who care about human rights, don’t get too excited 🤷🏻♀️
It was written for a specific audience: those liberal centrists and lefties who think Black Lives Matter, occupation is wrong, human rights are important, racism is bad, and the cruel treatment of innocent people by the police or military needs to gtfo—yet don’t pressure their political leaders to do anything about the US’s involvement in Palestine.
Aka, the PEPs: Progressive Except for Palestine.
And yeah. I don’t think history could have proved this book more completely and utterly correct. All the warnings came true. And there was just something about reading a book that was so carefully and cautiously constructing an argument for an audience it assumed wouldn’t believe it... To now read it when the entire world has first-hand knowledge that this whole argument is completely valid. It was a lot.