Except for Palestine, Marc Lamont Hill
Except for Palestine, Marc Lamont Hill
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Except for Palestine
The Limits of Progressive Politics

Author: Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Kalorama

Published: 02/16/2021

Synopsis

In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine deftly argues that progressives and liberals who oppose regressive policies on immigration, racial justice, gender equality, LGBTQ rights, and other issues must extend these core principles to the oppression of Palestinians. In doing so, the authors take seriously the political concerns and well-being of both Israelis and Palestinians, demonstrating the extent to which US policy has made peace harder to attain.

Hill and Plitnick provide a timely and essential intervention by examining multiple dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conversation, including Israel's growing disdain for democracy, the effects of occupation on Palestine, the siege of Gaza, diminishing American funding for Palestinian relief, and the campaign to stigmatize any critique of Israeli occupation. Except for Palestine is a searing polemic and a cri de coeur for elected officials, activists, and everyday citizens alike to align their beliefs and politics with their values.

About Marc Lamont Hill

Marc Lamont Hill is currently the host of BET News and Black News Tonight and is the Steve Charles Chair in Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. He is the founder and director of the People’s Education Center and the owner of Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books in Philadelphia. He has authored or coauthored several books, including Nobody and We Still Here.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sleepless

Marc Lamont Hill's I/P conflict takes are usually tone-deaf so my hopes for this book were low but this wasn’t as bad as other stuff he's said in the past. I'll start off with some general comments before getting into everything, let’s go! Except for Palestine claims that American progressives treat......more

Goodreads review by BooksAmyRead

I had the chance to read an advanced copy of this book thanks to #netgalley and I'm so thankful I did. The book is so well researched, straight to the point and asks the most daring of questions; why is it that the liberals of the US, both private citizens and public officials alike, call for justic......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

“U.S. policy in Israel-Palestine rests upon decades of decisions that have been supported, either through active endorsement or silent complicity, by the American Left. No American president has been an exception in this regard.” (pg 8) Hill and Plitnick are obviously writing to a well informed demog......more

Goodreads review by Wick

Israel is an apartheid state. There is much to be said about Israel and Palestine. It's not a battle that's been raging for hundreds of years but only since the 1940s. There are many interested parties, ideologies, religions and view points in looking at the conflict. If you are to truly step back an......more

Goodreads review by David

The Palestinians have been refugees for so long, the world has tired of them and pays no attention to their plight. People may be shocked at the treatment of the Rohingya expelled from Burma, or the innumerable escapees from various African horrors, everyone trying desperately to get into Europe, wi......more

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