'Excuse Me, Is This Yours?': Before you boycott settlers, meet them - review

A review of Tuvia Tenenbom's new book 'Excuse Me, Is This Yours?', which profiles West Bank settlers through eight months of fieldwork. The book challenges the monolithic view of settlers as a single ideological bloc, revealing diverse motivations including ideology, nationalism, and cheaper housing. Tenenbom also examines settler attitudes toward Palestinians and annexation, and critiques Yuval Abraham's documentary 'NAZA'.

A review of Tuvia Tenenbom's new book 'Excuse Me, Is This Yours?', which profiles West Bank settlers through eight months of fieldwork. The book challenges the monolithic view of settlers as a single ideological bloc, revealing diverse motivations including religious conviction, nationalism, rebellion against the state, and cheaper housing. Tenenbom also examines settler attitudes toward Palestinians and annexation, finding complexity and contradiction. The review notes the book's humor and its critique of Yuval Abraham's documentary 'NAZA', which won a prize at the 83rd Venice Film Festival. The review itself maintains a neutral, descriptive tone, summarizing the book's content without endorsing or condemning its subjects.

'Excuse Me, Is This Yours?': Before you boycott settlers, meet them - review