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Book Review | Israel Doesn’t Fit Your Frameworks

Summarizing Carlin Romano in Moment · Published Monday, April 7, 2025
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JL;DR SUMMARY Carlin Romano reviews two thought-provoking books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Adam Kirsch's "On Settler Colonialism" and Peter Beinart's "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Israeli Palestinian Conflict  Jewish Identity  Gaza  Middle East  Peter Beinart  Settler Colonialism  Academic Debate  Adam Kirsch  Ideological Critique 

Places mentioned

Israel
"Although he foreshadows the application of this framework to Israel by citing a few leading denunciations of the country, such as Yale professor Zareena Grewals X post (on October 7, 2023!) calling Israel a murderous, genocidal settler state, he concentrates first on describing the concepts broad outlines."
Palestinian Territories
"Unlike the Europeans who came to America, the Jews can argue that their community predated the notion of a Palestinian community and that they themselves had suffered exile."
Tibet, China
"Unlike the Chinese in Tibet and Xinjiang, the Israelis are not acting to destroy the native culture or language of their minority citizens."
Xinjiang, China
"Unlike the Chinese in Tibet and Xinjiang, the Israelis are not acting to destroy the native culture or language of their minority citizens."
Australia
"He argues that the very notion of an indigenous people is a myth, that everyone except the first East African humans came from somewhere else."
United States
"It began in the 1980s and 1990s in reference to the United States, Canada and Australianot Israeland deems countries founded on land that rightly belongs to indigenous inhabitants illegitimate."
Canada
"It began in the 1980s and 1990s in reference to the United States, Canada and Australianot Israeland deems countries founded on land that rightly belongs to indigenous inhabitants illegitimate."
Delhi, India
"He is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delhi and Visiting Professor of Humanities at Ashoka University on a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar grant to India."

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