Fara’s review of Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund > Likes and Comments
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Good Lord! Are you on the board of AIPAC or something?
Israel is committing a genocide and is deliberately targeting and killing children. If you can defend what Israel is doing you really are the worst of humanity, if you can cheerlead the atrocities committed by Israel who celebrate mass murder and mock international law then you’re no better than a Nzi
Amen! Its the exactly the kind of book that destroys a nation. An Israeli apartheid nation. And its the kind of book that can give life to new fertile nations built on equality and human rights.
'a flawed book that destroys a nation!'
What on earth can that even mean?
I'm Jewish, and I absolutely don't think the author is defending genocide. That's preposterous. Some of us who are Jewish understand the phrase "never again" to mean never again should any group of people be subject to genocide.
Crabapple’s qualification for analysis is, as you stated, flawless research. Your qualifications for analysis is a hypothetical in which the bar is always seemingly moved. It is not enough, apparently, that Crabapple is a Jew in Palestinian spaces who emerged safely, with dignity and respect, belying every fear-mongering assessment we Jews are supposed to have of Palestinians. Now she needs to have a more Jewish sounding last name? You suggest she hides her Jewishness to achieve safety, in the same way you erroneously assume that this book argues for assimilation as safety. I wonder if you read the book, or understood the conclusion of the Labor Bund’s history beyond your own preconceived notions? The entire premise of “hereness” is not an absolution of the Jewish self, but the existence of an ethnonation, however, will always place political and economic interests above the safety of people. I would be inclined to accept your review if you so clearly didn’t show your hand and inability to think critically around issues of fear and supposition. The author said nothing of 10/7, and only used cursory mentions of genocide to draw parallels to what befell our people and what is currently happening in Gaza. If you can read this book and still conclude that Israel is formed of righteousness, and that the author would have a different view if she had been attacked, then you have failed to consider the book’s analysis of systems of oppression that harmed our people, and that now harm the Palestinians.
I really do not understand the "rating system" of people who describe the book as well written, well researched (in this case, "spectacular"!) but disagree with the ideology, so they give the book an F. Really, it's okay to think "the quality is high but I don't agree with her conclusions and think they are dangerous". That statement is not consistent with a one start review. You can hold both ideas in your head and rate the book more fairly.
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Israel is committing a genocide and is deliberately targeting and killing children. If you can defend what Israel is doing you really are the worst of humanity, if you can cheerlead the atrocities committed by Israel who celebrate mass murder and mock international law then you’re no better than a Nzi
Amen! Its the exactly the kind of book that destroys a nation. An Israeli apartheid nation. And its the kind of book that can give life to new fertile nations built on equality and human rights.
'a flawed book that destroys a nation!'What on earth can that even mean?
I'm Jewish, and I absolutely don't think the author is defending genocide. That's preposterous. Some of us who are Jewish understand the phrase "never again" to mean never again should any group of people be subject to genocide.
Crabapple’s qualification for analysis is, as you stated, flawless research. Your qualifications for analysis is a hypothetical in which the bar is always seemingly moved. It is not enough, apparently, that Crabapple is a Jew in Palestinian spaces who emerged safely, with dignity and respect, belying every fear-mongering assessment we Jews are supposed to have of Palestinians. Now she needs to have a more Jewish sounding last name? You suggest she hides her Jewishness to achieve safety, in the same way you erroneously assume that this book argues for assimilation as safety. I wonder if you read the book, or understood the conclusion of the Labor Bund’s history beyond your own preconceived notions? The entire premise of “hereness” is not an absolution of the Jewish self, but the existence of an ethnonation, however, will always place political and economic interests above the safety of people. I would be inclined to accept your review if you so clearly didn’t show your hand and inability to think critically around issues of fear and supposition. The author said nothing of 10/7, and only used cursory mentions of genocide to draw parallels to what befell our people and what is currently happening in Gaza. If you can read this book and still conclude that Israel is formed of righteousness, and that the author would have a different view if she had been attacked, then you have failed to consider the book’s analysis of systems of oppression that harmed our people, and that now harm the Palestinians.
I really do not understand the "rating system" of people who describe the book as well written, well researched (in this case, "spectacular"!) but disagree with the ideology, so they give the book an F. Really, it's okay to think "the quality is high but I don't agree with her conclusions and think they are dangerous". That statement is not consistent with a one start review. You can hold both ideas in your head and rate the book more fairly.
