The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine

Yuval Noah Harari

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John Green

"In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John be­came fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequi­ties that allo...

Hari, Johann

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Megan C. Reynolds

A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language. Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as "like." Indeed, excessive use of this word is a surefire way to make those who pride themselves on propriety, both grammatical and otherwise, feel compelled to issue correctives. But what the detractors of t...

Todd May

Should we bring new humans into the world? Or would it be better off without us? These days it's harder than ever to watch TV, scroll social media, or even just sit at home looking out of the window without contemplating the question at the heart of philosopher Todd May's new book: Should we go extinct? Facing climate destruction and the revived specter of nuclear annihilation ...

Alex Edmans

Adam Grant's "8 New Idea Books to Start Spring"Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books for May 2024 How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation—and how to combat it. Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines, and the pronouncements of politicians, executives, and authors. Stories, statistics, and studies are e...

Ilan Pappe

An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel-Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it. 'Ilan Pappe is the most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel's "new historians".' Avi Shlaim, author of Three Worlds The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn't start on ...

Ilan Pappe

La idea de Israel estudia cómo opera el sionismo, más allá de la esfera militar y de la política gubernamental oficial, adentrándose en áreas no explotadas como la educación, los medios de comunicación o el cine, así como en los usos que se hacen del Holocausto en la estructura de soporte ideológico del Estado. ...

Ilan Pappe

Los israelíes conocen como "Guerra de la Independencia" la de 1948. Para los palestinos es la "Nakba", la "catástrofe", puesto que su resultado fue uno de los procesos de limpieza étnica más amplios y dramáticos de nuestro tiempo: cerca de un millón de palestinos fueron obligados a emigrar a punta de fusil, abandonado sus tierras, sus bienes y sus hogares; hubo matanzas de civi...

Ilan Pappe

Pappe analiza las motivaciones y estrategias de los generales y los políticos, y el proceso de toma de decisiones en sí mismo, que sentó las bases de la ocupación. A partir de un análisis de las infraestructuras legales y burocráticas implementadas para controlar la población de más de un millón de palestinos, de los mecanismos de seguridad que aplicaron vigorosamente ese contr...