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“A bruising blow in the cause of liberty, tolerance and good sense. Thank God he is on our side” – Jake Wallis Simons, editor, Jewish Chronicle
“A brutally honest analysis of how the world failed the test of Hamas’s brutality” – Eylon Levy, former Israeli government spokesman
After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation is the explosive new book from celebrated columnist and author Brendan O’Neill.
It is an unflinching account of how the West failed the moral test of 7 October. It documents, in chilling detail, how the West’s academics, activists and commentariat ended up making excuses for Hamas’s pogrom – the worst act of violence against the Jews since the Holocaust.
On university campuses, on our streets and in the press, people took the side not of the Jews, but of their murderous persecutors. We even witnessed the return of the twisted ideology of atrocity denial, as the activist class accused the Jewish State of exaggerating or even inventing the events of 7 October.
How did this happen? Why did so many in our educated elites shrug their shoulders over the worst anti-Semitic pogrom in almost 80 years? Why did “anti-fascists” cosy up to the fascists of Hamas?
This book is an unsparing examination of the moral disorder of the 21st-century West. Frank, fearless and incisive, it argues that our moral failures after 7 October exposed just how far we have drifted from Enlightenment values. It is a must-read for everyone concerned about the safety of the Jews and the future of the West.
<br><br> Publisher : Spiked (September 19, 2024) <br> Language : English <br> Paperback : 172 pages <br> ISBN-10 : 1068719303 <br> ISBN-13 : 978-1068719301 <br> Reading age : 16 - 18 years <br> Item Weight : 7 ounces <br> Dimensions : 5 x 0.43 x 8 inches <br>
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DR DAVID BOOTH –
Amply documented, sharply argued and punchily written, this book is Brendan O’Neill at his best. Exceptionally literate and insightful on the moral gymnastics and bizarre departures from reason that have turned progressive thought in the Anglosphere into its opposite over the issue of Israel and Palestine, it provides a compelling case that the fightback against pogrom apology is urgent and vital. This is not just a matter of warranted solidarity with Jewish people. If its argument is right about why, exactly, Israel and Zionism are being selected for special hatred, civilisation itself is at stake.
louise turnbull –
Beautifully written exposition on the warped response in the west to the pogrom of Oct 7th.
joanne hattersley –
Ever since âA Heretics Manifestoâ came across my radar last year, I have been a fan of the writings of Brendan O`Neill. His latest book, âAfter the Pogram: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisationâ, is nothing short of a master piece. Itâs honest, unflinching and raw. Brendan O`Neill is not afraid to call out those in the public eye who are on the left and appear to have supported the October 7 slaughter.This unflinching and uncompromising piece of writing has been called, âA bruising blow in the cause of liberty, tolerance and good sense. Thank God he is on our sideâ by Jake Wallis Simons, editor, Jewish Chronicle.Itâs also been called, âA brutally honest analysis of how the world failed the test of Hamasâs brutalityâ in the words of Eylon Levy, former Israeli government spokesman.While both of those statements are accurate, this book is so much more. It is a fearless narrative of what happened on October 7, 2023 and how the West responded to it. The book sharply critiques how Western societies fell short of expected moral standards in response to the attacks.The book is written beautifully and documents in extreme and very telling detail how commentators, news media, academia and activists all stepped upâ¦.for the terrorists. The west supported Hamas and made excuses for the worst violence against Jews since the Holocaust.On university campuses, on the streets of our villages, towns and cities, and in the media, many chose their side. That side being the murderous persecutors of the Jews. There was even a resurgence of a distorted ideology of denying atrocities, with some activists accusing the Jewish State of exaggerating or fabricating the events of 7 October.We can ask how this happened. How so many felt that Hamas weâre in the right. We can question why so many educated donât seem to care about the Jews and the slaughter that happened. We can wonder in disbelief how the people of the world support Hamas, a terrorist group that have kidnapped, raped and murdered individuals. While we can ask all these questions, what we must see is action.When I began thinking about how I felt the West had failed, I went back to a section of the book that seemed to sum everything up for me. It demonstrated how the world has its priorities so drastically wrong. From chapter 7 of the book we read,âSo, we live in an era when you can be banished from a university for saying women donât have penises, but youâll be fine if you say âkill all Jewsâ.We live in a time when asking someone where theyâre from is considered a âracial micro aggression, but hollering âGlobalise the intifadaâ in the aftermath of an âintifadaâ in which a thousand Jews were slaughtered is apparently okay. We live in a culture in which students will demand access to âsafe spacesâ, complete with colouring books and bean bags, if a speaker they hate turns up on campus. And yet these same students who fear words like the rest of us fear death, will happily cheer the invasion of Israel and the murder of hundreds of its citizens. No safe space for Jews, it seems. It was just two weeks after the pogrom that some students at George Washington University in Washington, DC projected that slogan, âGlory to our martyrsâ, on to the exterior of a campus building. That is, glory to the mobs that had lately invaded the Jewish nation to rape and massacre innocents.âIn the end, these contradictions reveal the unsettling double standards that permeate modern discourse. We are witnessing times where free speech is selectively protected, where the vilification of some is met with outrage while others are tacitly supported. The troubling irony is that those who claim to champion inclusivity and safe spaces are, in certain instances, the very voices amplifying hatred and violence.If our moral compass is so skewed that advocating for the destruction of a people is tolerated, yet benign questions or dissenting views are condemned, then we are failing as a society to uphold the very values we claim to protect.
Smokey Joe –
This book is a compact and highly readable critique of how far political activism has fallen from its lofty and egalitarian heights in the 20th century to a swamp of intersecting, ‘me too’ weekend-wannabees that characterise western societies in the 21st. O’Neil eloquently argues that far from preserving our society from fascism the far left and its fair weather sycophants have actually embraced fascism – without realising it, or realising the irony of their actions. The book is a series of interesting essays around individual points but each one is carefully footnoted with the source material for O’Neil’s arguments. No ‘tropism’ born of the echo chambers of social media here but actual evidence of the moral morass western intellectuals and identitarians now find themselves in – even if they don’t recognise the place to which they have arrived. I would say that this is an extension to Baddiel’s excellent work. Nothing more exemplifies more the fall from the enlightenment our 21st century to which our western societies have descended than the fact that this is probably the only book which confronts the egregious lies and hidden racism against a minority ethno-religious group in our country and countries across the world. As to the one-star reviewers below: when you discover the ambrosia of activism you have drunk from heavily is in fact cheap kool-aid it hurts, doesn’t it?
Amazon Customer –
An excellent book and highly recommended!
M. Gertelman –
Moral clarity at its best
This book should be required reading in high schools. If it were, it could potentially catalyze a change of historic proportions: reversing the resurgence of medieval antisemitism we’re witnessing in Western media, academia, and international organizations.I truly believe this.
A Roberts –
An absolute must read
I got my copy last week, and in spite of the heavy subject matter I burned through it. O’Neill’s writing is gripping, clear, and pursuasive. He gets right through to the center of things, with moral clarity that is unfortunately rare these days. I will be buying more copies to give to friends. Everyone should read this book.