The moment I started reading this book I knew it wasn’t for me (to put it lightly), but it was short and I was curious to see where the author was going to go with this.

This book is probably right for you if you’re a easy to please champagne socialist who wants some weak reassurance as to why decolonisation isn’t valid. Or if you’re just a right wing asshole lol.

I highlighted so many parts of this book that made me angry…!

The author uses so many far fetched analogies and examples to try to convince the reader that:
Settler colonialism is not real
Even if it is real, decolonisation will never work
Why Israel is good

Some parts that really pissed me off were
- when he suggested that immigrants are colonisers (yes ofc some immigrants act like colonisers I.e in fucking occupied Palestine .. but to generalise and say that if we called European settlers colonisers then shouldn’t we call all immigrants colonisers..)
- he kept suggesting decolonisation is unreasonable, mostly because the only way he can think of decolonisation is to make everyone except indigenous people leave their countries (violently) they occupy ??? Obviously this is not the only method of decolonisation
- when he criticises the oppressed for fighting back against their oppressors !!? He continues to do this while discussing Hamas. Ofcourse people will fight back ??????
- his fucking inability to get his head around how most social issues are linked to colonialism or even linked period. Or it’s just his own stubbornness which seems to come through in his writing
- a lot of his arguments felt like a little kid saying “there’s violence all over the world why is Israel getting the unfair treatment??? Look over there!!”
- his fucking stupid argument about how Palestinians are homophobic so the queer community shouldn’t care about them instead they should support Israel who loves gay people
- constantly implying that supporting Palestine is “celebrate the massacre of Israelis” and likening it to the holocaust
- his fucking obvious language when discussing the genocide ie “conflict”, Israel “invades” whereas Hamas “massacres”
- HE COMPARED EMPOWERINH ISRAEL TO THE VIETNAMESE !! Mate how fucking delusional are you

I could go on but i cannot give this book any more of my time. Adam kirsch is a coloniser / genocide defender and he didn’t do very well in trying to write a well rationed argument.

I say this so genuinely that while I was reading this all I could think was I would be so fucking embarrassed to write and publish something like this

Ps I’m looking for any avenues where I can send the author hate