A solid demonstration of why unconditional support for Israel is no longer acceptable to many young Jewish Americans.
A Jewish academic and activist delineates the history of Jewish social justice activism and solidarity with Palestinians.
Kroll-Zeldin, a professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Francisco, examines the important tradition of speaking out against Israel’s oppressive practices against Palestinians, especially among Jewish American millennials and the Gen Z cohort. This activism emerged well before the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023; indeed, the author’s research emerged years before. Throughout, he highlights the significant work of grassroots organizations whose aims are generally “to end Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories, abolish the mainstream Jewish community’s support for the occupation, and call attention to the freedom, dignity, and justice that Palestinians demand.” Kroll-Zeldin focuses on the strategies of four groups, “each integral to Jewish Palestine solidarity activism in the United States”: Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, and All That’s Left: Anti-Occupation Collective. They “engage in direct actions in the United States that target the American Jewish Establishment, are deeply immersed in co-resistance [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] and solidarity activism with Palestinian communities in Palestine/Israel, and have become the subject of widespread media reporting in Israel” and the U.S. In the last chapter, Kroll-Zeldin champions the successful strides of the BDS movement and how associating with it has resulted in a “red line” being drawn by the Israeli government and caused considerable backlash for the participants. While some of the groups are anti-Zionist, Kroll-Zeldin asserts they are not antisemitic. Given the current conflict in the Gaza region, readers will hope for an updated edition of this study.
A solid demonstration of why unconditional support for Israel is no longer acceptable to many young Jewish Americans.Pub Date: June 11, 2024
ISBN: 9781479821457
Page Count: 288
Publisher: New York Univ.
Review Posted Online: March 14, 2024
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15, 2024
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorker staff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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