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I refuse to finish this book because the phantom trauma and self victimization revolts me. Would give zero stars and a terrible review if the butthurt zios wouldn’t come after me. Instead if I really want to hear about antisemitism I’ll read Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein or listen to Bad Hasbara or Matt Bernstein’s podcast ep abt the antisemitism panic, people who don’t use their own oppression to justify genocide.

Oh I am going to tear this book to shreds

“…My friend Cecilie Surasky, then one of the leaders of Jewish Voice for Peace, observed of these kinds of educational methods: ‘It's retraumatization, not remembering. There is a difference.’”
“…Though there were certainly exceptions, for the most part, the goal of this teaching was not to turn us into people who would fight the next genocide wherever it occurred. The goal was to turn us into Zionists.”

I’d write a review but I’m afraid the Worst kind of people will come for me in the comments

I wanted more Marxism 😔

A chapter titled “Are We Indeed All Palestinians?” I went 😮

Oh noooo going back over Haymitch’s games hurts knowing the truth 😭

You despise Hamas because of their obsession with violence? 🤨

Way more pro imperialism than I thought it’d be

I’m struggling to finish this

Wait a character I think is the antagonist of this book is explicitly a communist lol

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Shows very little understanding of the Black Liberation Movement. How can you say the George Floyd uprising accomplished nothing and ignore ECPS in Chicago?

Relatable

This is one of the few books my brother has, the power’s out, and my phone is dying so 🤷‍♂️

Okay an explanation,,, when I was in the sixth grade, my conservative dad recommended me this book and I LOVED it and now I’m revisiting. So far it’s exactly as I remember but also it doesn’t hold up lol

Worry Beads is my favorite story

He/they

Yes it will probably destroy the message of the original but it’s T4T Nick Carraway/Jay Gatsby and this is the farthest I’ve gotten to in an audiobook in months 🙈

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Love an Adiba Jaigirdar romance!

I’m sorry, having a person with a Lebanese flag and a person with an Israeli flag unite at a concert is just too fucking stupid to me. I’m not finishing this book bc you’re pissing me off