THE WORLD AFTER GAZA

From the award winning writer and thinker an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza its historical conditions and moral and geopolitical ramifications Courageous and bracing learned and ethical rigorous and mind expanding NAOMI KLEIN Mishra has made a powerful contribution to the moral history of the world ANDREW O HAGAN Urgent HISHAM MATAR Brilliant WILLIAM DALRYMPLE Memory of the Holocaust the ultimate atrocity of Europe s civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era Fears of its recurrence have been routinely invoked to justify Israel s policies against Palestinians But for most people around the world the darker peoples in W E B Du Bois s words the main historical memory is of the traumatic experiences of slavery and colonialism and the central event of the twentieth century is decolonisation freedom from the white man s world The World After Gaza takes the war in the Middle East and the bitterly polarised reaction to it within as well as outside the West as the starting point for a broad reevaluation of two competing narratives of the last century the West s triumphant account of victory over Nazi and communist totalitarianism and the spread of liber