Reviews

Man holds up cardboard sign with painted letters reading "Keep your eyes on the Genocide"

Bearing witness to the gruesome end of Western liberalism

Rod Such 29 December 2025

Corporate journalism skewered in Omar El Akkad’s award-winning book on Gaza genocide. Read more about Bearing witness to the gruesome end of Western liberalism

Betraying the underdog in Gaza

Tim Llewellyn 25 November 2025

Peter Oborne’s new book is a minutely detailed account of an England betrayed at its moral heart. Read more about Betraying the underdog in Gaza

Cover of Beneath the Gaza Sky

Home is the tale in Beneath the Gaza Sky

Yousef M. Aljamal 11 September 2025

Shadi Salem was abroad for a training course when genocide began. Read more about Home is the tale in Beneath the Gaza Sky

Palestine is not so complicated

Rod Such 4 April 2025

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ welcome message. Read more about Palestine is not so complicated

Cover of "The Escape Artist" by Jonathan Freedland

Guardian's Zionist gatekeeper rewrites Holocaust history

Tony Greenstein 22 August 2024

Jonathan Freedland’s book downplays Rudolph Vrba’s heroic criticism of Zionism. Read more about Guardian's Zionist gatekeeper rewrites Holocaust history

Before the flood

Rod Such 17 June 2024

Collection of essays places Gaza war in its “proper historical context.” Read more about Before the flood

An incomplete revolution

Rod Such 25 April 2024

Ryan Grim’s The Squad lays bare the Israel lobby’s outsized influence on US politics. Read more about An incomplete revolution

Cover of Boycott Theory book featuring abstract shape with green and red facets

Why are colleges "civil" to Israel?

Rod Such 12 July 2023

Politics and culture of Western universities promote thinking over acting. Read more about Why are colleges "civil" to Israel?

Spyware exposé lets Israel off the hook

Refaat Alareer 11 July 2023

Testing of surveillance technology on Palestinians ignored by Pegasus investigators. Read more about Spyware exposé lets Israel off the hook

Sambac searches for “home in exile”

Selma Dabbagh 23 June 2023

From Gaza to Ohio to London, Heba Hayek writes her way through a diasporic existence. Read more about Sambac searches for “home in exile”