Tag: politics
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Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the Israel/Palestine conflict, especially those looking for a place to start that isn’t too difficult!
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Rules for Resistance
Rating: 4/5, good Rules for Resistance is a short (200-page) collection of essays by journalists and activists from different countries giving Americans advice on how to deal with Trump. It’s edited by David Cole and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett. It was interesting, but I don’t know if it was as instructive as I was hoping for.…
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A History of Israel by Howard Sachar
Rating: 5/5, excellent This 1,000 page tome is a fantastic in-depth history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It took me about four years to read and a couple of months to review, but I think it was worth the effort. It’s fairly unbiased compared to other books I’ve looked into on Israel. It leans slightly pro-Israel,…
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Wrestling with Zion by Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon
Rating: 4/5, good I found this book in 2015 at the Grove Press booth at the Bay Area Book Festival. It appealed to me because I had seen a lot of pro-Palestinian articles online around the time of Operation Defensive Shield in 2014. My Hebrew school education on the conflict was about as balanced as…
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Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump
Rating: 5/5, excellent It feels odd writing this after Trump’s been voted out of the presidency. I want to be done talking about him, but this book was fantastic and deserves the attention. Too Much and Never Enough is Mary L. Trump’s memoir/biography of the Trump family. Mary analyzes how Donald came to be the…
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Infomocracy by Malka Older (Centenal Cycle #1)
Rating: 4/5, good Infomocracy by Malka Older is a political science fiction thriller. It’s about a near-future world where 20 years ago, the peoples of the world split off from traditional countries into small local voting blocks of 100,000 people known as centenals. The people in these centenals vote to choose which global government to…