The World After Gaza: A History
Outraged, post-colonial attitude animates The World After Gaza ... Mishra has armed himself with a vast bibliography. Some of his ruminations are carefully wrought ... Elsewhere, quotations from various luminaries cascade down the page and his prodigious reading overwhelms his argument.
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A coolly argued polemic that sifts insights from the gore and chaos ... Its voice clear as a bell but with striking nuances. Mishra devotes most of his text to rationales for the Jewish state, weighing the pros and cons ... This is depressing stuff, yet avoidable. Is sunlight the best disinfectant? The World After Gaza casts its audacious gaze on ashen ruins and corpses of children, a debacle Mishra views as decades in the making.
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A repugnant book ... His assertion of equivalence—that Jews kill like Nazis—is unabashed ... Mishra, a vaunted progressive polemicist and the author of numerous books on race and empire, is a darling of the postcolonial left. This work, and others like it, peddle—no, wallow—in the same trite, poisonous, ahistorical idea shared by the ideological descendants of Edward Said.
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