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Average rating4.2
I am wanting to edit this review so I can focus on the issues with this book, most importantly, the problematic ones.
Throughout the book, Israel is mentioned many times and at one point the main character begins to read a book labelled
‘The founding of Israel' and I am going to explain exactly why this is problematic.
The name of the book itself is harmful and erases the true meaning of what occurred for this ‘founding'. This was the Nakba.
The Nakba was the violent displacement and the destruction of their society, culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. This caused the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians and the depopulation and destruction of over 500 Palestinian villages by the zionist militias and later the Israeli army and subsequent geographical erasure, the denial of the Palestinian right of return, the creation of permanent Palestinian refugees and the “shatters of Palestinian society”.
reference: Nakba
It is now 2023 and we are witnessing the second Nakba. Survivors of the 1948 Nakba are experiencing it again and this is a direct result, again, by the Israeli army. 2 million Palestinians have been displaced, over 27,000 injured and over 12,000 have been killed (not including those who remain stuck under the rubble) and this is a number that grows every single minute, hour and day.
We are witnessing a mass genocide and ethnic cleansing.
So, yeah. ‘The founding of Israel' let's call it what it is.
An occupation over Palestine that has been going on for 75+ years.
Free Palestine.