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Saul Bellow, Martha Gellhorn, and Mary McCarthy maligned the Palestinians or Arabs while <\/span>Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, among many others, including Primo Levi, recognized the sufferings of all people no matter their skin color. A new book by Pankaj Mishra explores divisions and prejudices in the world of letters and the acquiescence and implication of literary giants and ordinary people in the genocide in Gaza.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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The World After Gaza<\/span><\/i> by Pankaj Mishra <\/span>
\n<\/span>Fern Press<\/span><\/a> (2025) <\/span>
\n<\/span>ISBN 9781911717492<\/span>
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Selma Dabbagh<\/span><\/h4>\n

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\u201cI felt almost compelled to write this book,\u201d Pankaj Mishra reveals in his prologue, \u201cto alleviate my demoralizing perplexity before an extensive moral breakdown, and to invite general readers into a quest for clarifications that feel more pressing in a dark time.\u201d The clarity sought has been sought for a while. He later summarizes the two baffling questions he asked himself prior to his first visit to Israel and the Palestinian Occupied Territories in 2008 as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

How did Israel, a country built to house a persecuted and homeless people, come to exercise such a terrible power of life and death over another population of refugees (many of them refugees in their own land) and how can the Western political and journalistic mainstream ignore, even justify, its clearly systematic cruelties and injustices?<\/span><\/p>\n

The World After Gaza <\/span><\/i>is unlike any other work I have read on Palestine\/Israel. Mishra\u2019s voyage around Zionism, the Shoah, antisemitism, philosemitism and \u201cthe colour line,\u201d is personal, historical, philosophical and revolutionary. I have previously been advised by Palestinian writers to stay away from the Holocaust, as it is not our history, as it is a European affair, not a Palestinian one. It is also policed terrain when it comes to freedom of expression, with the provisions, for example in the IHRA definition of antisemitism, curtailing discussion of aspects of it. Mishra however, whilst not falling foul of these injunctions on intellectual debate, insists on the centrality of the Shoah, in recent decades. It has, among other things, \u201cset the standard of human evil. The extent to which people identify it as such and promise to do everything in their power to combat antisemitism serves, in the West, as the measure of their civilisation.\u201d Mishra stares unflinchingly not only at Zionist ideology, but at the role that intellectuals and writers in the 20<\/span>th<\/span> and 21<\/span>st<\/span> century have played, or have played into, the genocide in Gaza whose visceral horrors thread through the book, reminding the reader just how much our psyches have been scarred by the violence and cruelty of the past eighteen months.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mishra writes of the father holding the headless corpse of his child in Rafah, as well as the revulsion he felt at the Tiktok \u201cinfotainment\u201d of Israeli civilians and soldiers mocking the killing and suffering they have carried out, or are deliberately blinding themselves to. Even watching this from afar, he writes, has inflicted a \u201cpsychic ordeal,\u201d on millions of people who have become \u201cinvoluntary witnesses\u201d to acts of \u201cpolitical evil.\u201d He lists the denial of access of food and medicine; the hot metal sticks inserted in the rectum of naked prisoners; the destruction of schools, universities, museums, churches, mosques and even cemeteries; the puerility of evil embodied by IDF soldiers dancing around in the lingerie of dead or fleeing Palestinian women.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have often thought that Mishra, as a thinker and a writer, has filled part of the intellectual chasm left by Edward Sa\u00efd\u2019s death in 2003. There is the texture, intellectual muscularity and range of Edward Sa\u00efd\u2019s Reith Lectures of 1993, published under the title, <\/span>Representations of the Intellectual<\/span><\/i>, in <\/span>The World After Gaza<\/span><\/i>. Both contain investigations that are at once public and private, and are driven by a quest for freedom and justice in the world. They are meditations that refer to the role of politicians and leaders, but pay greater attention to the writing of philosophers and novelists, in their public works, private letters, in their marginalia and in their asides.<\/span><\/p>\n

Readers may be familiar with versions of some of the chapters which have appeared as long essays in the London Review of Books. In February 2024, the Barbican in London refused to host Mishra\u2019s lecture, \u201cThe Shoah After Gaza.\u201d The event had to move to St. James Church in Clerkenwell. When interviewed afterwards by the <\/span>Guardian<\/span><\/a>, Mishra commented that \u201c<\/span>powerful people who have supported the Israeli regime are doubling down on their untenable position. That breeds a pervasive sense of fear and panic that infects even cultural institutions.\u201d Shocked, but not surprised, he said that \u201cthe whole point of culture and the arts is to embrace diversity, different viewpoints and protect imaginative freedom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>The World After Gaza,<\/span><\/i> Mishra seeks to understand his own early fascination with the military figure of Israeli leader Moshe Dayan, whom he had revered growing up in a family of Brahmin Hindu Nationalists in India. Mishra takes us through the genesis of early Zionist thought, the intertwining of its roots with the European ethno-nationalistic impulses that in themselves gave rise to the powerful antisemitism that propagated the sentimental longings, ideological justifications, not to mention the political and financial backing that allowed for Zionism to become the political force that became Israel \u2014 now a nation that is, according not just to Mishra, but anyone who cares to look, committing \u201cwar crimes on a daily basis.\u201d The embracing of nationalistic movements with clearly antisemitic objectives by Zionist thinkers, is charted through from Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) who \u201cfulsomely endorsed Ukrainian nationalism in the early twentieth century even as it became identified with anti-Jewish pogroms,\u201d to the current day, with Israeli leaders cozying up to the far-right in Eastern Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

The questions <\/span>The World After Gaza<\/span><\/i> investigates, summarized in the \u201chow did Israel become what it is?\u201d exploration that Mishra asked himself in 2008, is far more than a charting of the increasing takeover of Palestinian land for exclusive Jewish use, or a documentation of wars and leadership; it probes the intellectual framework for the venture, the methods of creation of a narrative, the co-optation of mass suffering of the Shoah into a self-justifying raison d\u2019\u00eatre for the State of Israel, as well as the forcible stamping out of any opposition to it. Ethnonationalism and the type of the \u201cbellicose righteousness\u201d has increasingly defined the Israeli state. By the mid-twentieth century, \u201ctechnology, the rational division of labour and deference to norm-setting authority,\u201d Mishra writes, \u201chad enabled ordinary people to contribute to acts of mass extermination with a clear conscience, even with frissons of virtue.\u201d It is to this \u201cnorm-setting authority\u201d that Mishra plays closest attention. How were writers and intellectuals complicit in setting these norms and turning away from suffering, in this case the Palestinians, when it came to viewing the evidence of what the Zionist project had become? What part did these erudite, well-informed minds play in dehumanizing Palestinians and other \u201cpeople of the periphery too weak and backward to be consequential in world history\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

The list of those writers seduced by the new state building project of Israel is long and glittery. Saul Bellow\u2019s novels fell functionally in line with Israeli state propaganda. Martha Gellhorn felt entirely at liberty to vent her contempt for the Palestinians specifically, and the Arabs more generally. Mary McCarthy found the Arabs of Libya to be \u201codious,\u201d and the list goes on. Many volumes would be required to chart and analyze those writers who without hesitation relegated a people \u201cwithout Chagalls or Freuds\u201d as Sa\u00efd put it, to a destiny of dispossession, disenfranchisement and genocide. Mishra\u2019s analysis of some of this literature of norm-setting to enhance one people at the expense of another, to feel intensely one people\u2019s suffering and be entirely numb to, if not to expect or welcome, the pain of another peoples, is sensitive and soul searching. There are many avenues for further research in <\/span>The World After Gaza<\/span><\/i> and this is one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

During times as dark as these, for all of us who have had to endure the \u201cpsychic ordeal,\u201d of witnessing the assault on Gaza and more so, for the Palestinians particularly those in Gaza, a craving for hope is not only desirable, but the only responsible option, or as a friend in Gaza wrote to me, the only thing they have left. Mishra provides inspiration through unearthing the powerful voices of dissenters, those writers who did not fail to see the connections between the suffering of peoples no matter how much melanin their skin contained, or what religious heritage they were born into. There are many who I personally had not been aware of, others whose work I knew, but was not familiar with their stance on Palestine\/Israel. Here, their lives and work are rightfully given a place in history by Mishra: Boaz Evron, Natalia Ginzberg, Ahad Ha\u2019am join the ranks of Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt in being able to see beyond the pull of their religious heritage to speak out against all suffering of all peoples. Appreciated too is the mention of the pioneering journalism of Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961), whose career and memory deserve resurrection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mishra handles each one of these thinkers with care. It is rarely a monolithic emotive or intellectual compulsion that drives these thinkers, but a painful, often contradictory one. The scientist, writer and Auschwitz survivor, Primo Levi\u2019s emotions towards Israel were complex and conflicted. He is said to have found pride when the cover of one of his books matched that of the Israeli flag, yet in a letter to a friend, Mishra tells us, he once wondered if he \u201cbelonged to the Jewish people at all.\u201d He was not the only Jewish writer who post-1948 became increasingly more critical of the Israeli state after the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, upon the revelations of torture of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons and the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Jean Am\u00e9ry (1912-1978) was another writer who found these political developments too much for him to reconcile with the dream he had been seduced by. They refused to close their eyes. They both understood where this could lead and what violence, pain and suffering entailed. Both men had survived the concentration camps, Am\u00e9ry had fought in the resistance to Nazi Germany and had been tortured.<\/span><\/p>\n

The World After Gaza<\/span><\/i> is a book of magnitude and grace. Mishra\u2019s skills as a novelist enable him to provide vivid portraits of men and women struggling (and sometimes failing) to rail against the injustices of their eras. In doing so, we find not only a lament for what has gone wrong, a warning against the complicity that convenience can give rise to and an elegy for the world order that we are at risk of losing, but also a guide as to what we can be, each of us, individually.<\/span><\/p>\n

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