A Genocide Foretold, Chris Hedges
A Genocide Foretold, Chris Hedges
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A Genocide Foretold
Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine

Author: Chris Hedges

Narrator: Ali Nasser

Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/04/2025


Synopsis

A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and survive. Weaving together personal stories, historical context, and unflinching journalism, Chris Hedges provides an intimate portrait of systemic oppression, occupation, and violence. The book includes chapters on:

● What life is like in Gaza City and Ramallah in the midst of approaching bombs and gunfire.

● The history of the dispossession of Palestinians of their land in relation to the ideology of Zionism.

● A portrait of Amr, a seventeen-year-old high school student who is forced to evacuate his village with his family.

● Psychoanalysis of the state of permanent war that has led to the destruction of hospitals, telecommunications centers, governmental buildings, roads, homes universities, schools, and libraries and archaeological and heritage sites in Gaza.

● The ways in which the collective retribution against innocents is a familiar tactic employed by colonial rulers.

● A heartbreaking final chapter called "Letter to the Children of Gaza."

About Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges, a staff member of the New York Times since 1990, has been a foreign correspondent for fifteen years. An adjunct professor of journalism at New York University, he is the author of Losing Moses on the Freeway and What Every Person Should Know About War. Chris was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the New York Times's coverage of global terrorism. A senior fellow at the Nation Institute, he lives in New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wilson on March 28, 2025

Purchased and read after attending his talk at Labyrinth Books last night, which contained what I consider one of the best speeches I’ve ever had the privilege of hearing live. He speaks with almost unparalleled moral courage and vigor about how fascism takes root, as well as how the genocidal proje......more

Goodreads review by Gladwyn on April 01, 2025

An indictment of our obsequious obedience to present day genocides while studying and memorializing past genocides which is apparent in the speech of protesters like Aaron Bushnell’s screaming free Palestine as he burned for what our ruling class makes normal; using local sources like Afef Abu Saif......more

Goodreads review by Jim on April 26, 2025

J’accuse - the 2025 Indictment of Zionism is in This Book. Everything done by the Zionists/Mossad/Shin Bet against the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank and against those around the world protesting the Zionist genocide is in this book. I suggest only more clarity on the Hannibal Directive as be......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy G on April 18, 2025

Phenomenal. The way in which Hedges writes of war and suffering is immediately reminiscent of Paul Fussell’s “The Great War and Modern Memory.” I have no recent memory of reading journalistic prose this emotionally moving and simultaneously clear-minded in its assertions. Necessary for this moment.......more