Tolerance is a wasteland: Palestine and the culture of denial (2022). What a gloomy title! I am overwhelmed by the horrors of Gaza, all the boringly excruciating details of genocide, our helplessness. For some reason, I ordered this book from the library and finally forced myself to open it. When I got to the detailed comparisons of apartheid South Africa and Israel, I was hooked. I get goosebumps realizing how close we are now to a rivetting, deja vu replay of that glorious struggle leading to victory. Makdisi shows beyond a doubt that Israel's shipwreck-of-state is sinking under its phony, slipshod 'Jewish-democratic-state'. How can it be both Jewish and a 'state-of-all'? Of course, it can't. Q.E.D.
But Tolerance gets better and better.