"Alam writes with keen purpose and with an ethical point of view, one opposed to the injustices inscribed in Zionist logic, and one that is unfortunately still marginalized in North America."--"Foreign Policy Journal"""Israeli Exceptionalism" is not only a must read, it is a must-think-about book. To add intellectual spice, every chapter starts with a few quotes of prominent individuals related to the topic at hand. Reading these quotes alone speak volumes of the human tragedy that Zionism evokes."--Sam Bahour, "Arab News"""Israeli Exceptionalism" is nearly the best introduction to Zionism there is"--"Holy Land Studies""This is a critically important book. It enhances and expands on the groundbreaking message of Shlomo Sand's work. If Sand shows that Jews were not 'a people' until Zionism created them as such, Alam shows this also and goes well beyond to show how Zionism and its manufactured 'nation' went about dispossessing and replacing the Palestinians and winning all-important Western support for Israel and its now 60-year-old 'exclusionary colonialism.'"--"Counterpunch""There is no doubt that many will consider [this] book to be controversial, and most will consider it provocative. Nobody will think it is un-interesting or irrelevant. It is novel in insights, keen in analysis, and sharp in language. The dominant discourse in the West, certainly in the US, about the Arab-Israeli conflict is usually simplistic, often cowardly, and almost always tendentious. Alam's counter-narrative, in spite of its indignant tone and grim prognosis, is a brave and bracing antidote to much mainstream blather on the subject."--"Informed Comment", review by Ahrar Ahmad
"M. Shahid Alam's book is a splendid read--lively, engaging, and thought provoking. It competently penetrates, as will as demystifies, one of the most well packaged ideological myths of our times--Israel as a benevolent, civilized, moral national project and shows clearly its darker side, especially
