“Supporters of Is/rael present Zion!sm as an ideology of liberation of the Jewish people, but for Pale-stinians, Zion!sm, as it has been practiced and as they have experienced it, has been precisely apart-heid.”

This book has been split into 3 parts or chapters, so they are quite long. Part 1 focuses on the creation of Is/rael and the Nakba, part 2 is all about how the apart-heid system has been upheld, and part 3 looks at resistance groups in Pale-stine as well as what we can do in the international community. The book ends with FAQs, most of which are arguments used by Ziøn!sts and Is/rael apologists to defend their actions. Each argument is addressed and debunked through White’s research, data and various sources.

This book is the second edition (2014), updated from the original that was published in 2009. There’s quite a bit of overlap with other books I’ve read such as Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappè. So some things I had known from previous research and readings, but it also went more in depth on topics such as the Ziøn!st movement + Congress, Nakba, and 2006 election of H@mmas. White also gives first person accounts of Pale/stinian experiences and looks at grassroots organizations/resistance groups.

There was one small point White made, which I didn’t fully agree with in terms of criticizing Palestinian resistance groups. He claims that they’re unsuccessful in part because they won’t acknowledge the fears of Jewish Israeli’s. That is not their job when they’re trying to survive and have basic human rights, they do not need to cater to the feelings of their oppressors when they’re being systematically killed.

This should be a book everyone reads. White has done a lot of research providing quotes from Zion!st leaders, graphs, photographs, first person stories, statements from human rights groups, and data to give a full overview of the occupatiøn of Pale/stine. It’s very readable  and offers in depth analysis without being dry or heavily academic as well!

“Indeed, Israel argues, it alone is a country that fights for its very survival. Even putting aside Israel's vast military strength, why would Israel's existence as a Jewish state be so objectionable to Palestinians? Unlike today's slick apologists, the early Zionists were refreshingly honest about the reality of their mission, as we will see more of in Part I.”

“When you demand that Palestinians acknowledge the right' of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, you are asking them to acknowledge that it was and is morally right to do all the things that were and are necessary for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, even though these necessary things include their own displacement, dispossession and disenfranchisement.”

“…even during the years of the Oslo 'peace process', the Is/raeli government confiscated around 35,000 acres in the West Bank,”