I've lived in Israel for a year and my Israeli Jewish professors refuse to brooch a lot of these topics, which are really essential to a deeper understanding of how anything works here. Some people here are in denial of absolutely confirmed truths.

This book is not going to tell you about the Palestinian or Israeli experience, but it is a brilliant way to understand and parse what this cultural divide between myself and the people around me IS exactly. I would regularly stop, stunned by new pieces of information, and how much they just made sense.

I'll be reviewing this on my Instagram page, unearthingthemargins, in the week before its release.

This is easily the greatest book of all time.
Books that this book is better than:

War and Peace
The Bible
Ulysses
Portrait of a Lady
All those Harry Potter books

We are Not One by Eric Altimman is a great examination on how we as Americans look at and feel about Iran. From the movies in books to the resistance that built up on all elite college campuses and much much more The 1st+ I can say about this book is it was definitely fair and balanced and discuss both sides opinion I was also surprised to learn that nuts and Jimmy Carter has any president spent time in defense of the small country that seems to have enemies from every side. Maybe because I lived in a bubble but when I was younger and heard about the persecution of the Jews all I could think is why? From mid evil times back to biblical days and even now there’s people who hate Jews and as an adult I still can only wonder why? Heat is corrosive and unfortunately I cannot see a time now in in the future where it’s not prevalent in society,Hate is also contagious all we can do as intelligent modern people is the kind no matter what. It’s someone’s life doesn’t affect you on a daily basis why rise up against them. I thoroughly enjoyed the sport I enjoyed the great research and the easy to read writing style and I highly recommend this book. I received this book from NetGalley in the publisher but I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.

historian Eric Alterman offers an analytical, engaging, measured account of Jewish debates over Israel in the U.S. We Are Not One knows what it is and isn’t: not American foreign policy in the Middle East, not Palestinian experiences, and not a history of Israel. it’s a careful account of Jewish-American perspectives regarding the world’s only Jewish nation. well-defined scope enables Alterman to parse out complex issues. how can we critique American Israeli relations without succumbing to antisemitic tropes? Jewish American conversations illuminated through Alterman’s historical analyses hold the answers.

This was interesting, at points thought-provoking. At other times I found his argument a bit hyperbolic. I agree with his basic premise but think it could have been more balanced.

In the past, when I read one of Eric Alterman's books, I found it a good idea to keep an air-sickness bag close at hand. Imagine my surprise when I opened "We Are Not One" and found that the first half of this book was well written and informative. Sadly, Mr. Alterman then returned to his usual snarky and far-left style that serves no one. Thus, I give his book three stars -- five stars for the opening chapters and one star for the rest.