Love Israel, Support Palestine takes the reader on a journey to the past, present and future of the State of Israel, the occupied Territories and the people living within it and beyond it. It is a journey revealing a different point of view that challenges the primary Israeli narrative, leaving behind many questions and proclamations regarding Israeli society. Nir is a different kind of Israeli, one who cannot be ignored. In his book, he confronts the reader with his Israeli identities: his Jewish heritage as the grandchild of Holocaust survivors, his military identity as an officer who takes up arms and defends his country, and his humane identity as a citizen fighting for human rights and the rights of his Palestinians neighbors. This is an Israeli story through the eyes of a person who came to be one of the people most identified with the struggle against the occupation in Israel. The experiences of his military service in the Territories, his political activism and even his Big Brother appearance constitute a different, complex and fascinating image of Israelism. There was a public outcry after the Israeli publication wanted to scrap this book, right before it was about to be published in Israel, claiming that a book about the occupation would hurt the Israeli public's feelings. The book was published in Hebrew thanks to crowdfunding that has enabled its publication .
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