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.
Hollow and useless ... Genteel Zionist distortion ... Mishra’s book is not about the world after Gaza or the world before Gaza or Gaza—this book is not even about the world. The World After Gaza is the work of a magpie with poor eyesight caroming through a bookshop, nodding at the noteworthy titles and pitching in a few topics to let you know that he’s looked at Twitter. The prose is the worst thing in this shit salad, a timid and rhythmless plod that seems to be auditioning for the position of World Book staff writer.
Mapping an ideological critique on to real world events, as Mishra does, demands some intellectual cartwheels to keep the theory from collapse ... The first mention of Hamas in the main text comes on page 34, and then only in passing.
