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princxporkchop's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation
hjb_128's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation
amaranth_wytch's review against another edition
Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War
Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Physical abuse, Slavery, Police brutality, and Pandemic/Epidemic
gaeliloveweiss's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Antisemitism
yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, and Deportation
Moderate: Slavery, Mass/school shootings, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War
Minor: Gore and Pedophilia
nat_montego's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Genocide
Moderate: Racism, Rape, Police brutality, and War
dragongirl271's review against another edition
4.0
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.
Moderate: Death, Genocide, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, and War
likeanecho's review against another edition
Graphic: Genocide, Racism, and Colonisation
Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, and War
Minor: Pedophilia
kirstym25's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death, Rape, Murder, and War
Moderate: Torture
Minor: Police brutality
proletecario's review against another edition
4.5
Es, sin lugar a dudas, un libro completamente necesario de leer por más desgarrador; es imposible seguir ocultando una realidad irracional y desaforada como la que pretende reescribir el movimiento sionista.
A pesar de la trepidación que supo generar esta lectura (y la actual situación en Palestina), me incitó a priorizar el estudio del caso que engloba Israel y sionismo, judaísmo, cristianismo, capitalismo, colonización, etc. Y si bien me quedo con un mal gusto en la boca al terminar el libro, no es por nada en absoluto culpa de Pappe, más bien, me da un poco de alivio y, a la vez, me hace sentir peor cuanto supo humanizar a los palestinos nativos, reconocer y honorar sus historias, aunque a eso le siguiera la tragedia.
Espero que muchísima más gente se digne a leer este libro de una buena vez y sepan reconocer la ilegitimidad ética de un Estado colonial tanto como fue y sigue siendo en las historias de todos los continentes y países invadidos, explotados y genocidados del mundo.
Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, and Deportation
Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, and Islamophobia
Minor: Police brutality