here we go again, another male character that clearly has a wife but is attracted to a young white girl😞 Why are there a lot of male authors (esp classic authors) who love to write this kind of thing😭

Are you sticking to them or just using them as a loose guide?

I try to plan at least two books from my TBR each month, and then once my book club drops the seasonal bingo, I match books to the prompts and sort them by length. That way I can tackle the longer reads first and not get stuck cramming them in at the end.

I do wish we could reorder books on the plan page (please 😭), but even without that, it’s been really helpful, especially since I’m juggling 24 books across three months for bingo.

I usually aim for about 8 books a month, but I’ve already hit 10 this month, so now everything’s getting bumped up earlier than expected 🎉

How are you all using your plans? Are you strict with it, or more of a mood reader?

Summary: Ottoman tradition was to allow farmers to stay even when the owner of the land changed. Land ownership included the people and villages on that land. When Jewish settlers started coming from Europe, the concept of land ownership began to change so that landowners were allowed to evict tenants. According to Pappe, the early Jewish Zionist settlers aimed to take the land for themselves and displace the Arabs living there. They were not yet concerned with Anti-Semitism, as this connection did not happen until Theodor Herzl advocated for it. Anti-Semitism did not become a central concern to Jews outside of Eastern Europe until the Holocaust.

Thoughts: This is different from my previous reading on the topic (The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine by Michael Scott-Baumann) which almost entirely glossed over the history of Zionism pre-Herschl and so made it seem like Jewish Zionism has always been a reaction to Anti-Semitism. Pappe also emphasizes Christian Zionism and makes it sound as if it developed BEFORE Jewish Zionism, but my previous reading gave the impression that Herschl developed the idea first.

Things to investigate further: In the late 1800s/early 1900s, the settlers were mostly from Europe. What did other Jewish groups think about Zionism at this time? Was it even a concern for them? I should do more research about other parts of the Jewish Diaspora because I seem to mostly come across information about European Jews and the sects that developed in New York after the Holocaust.