Now available, Israel, Palestine, and the Doppelganger Effect, a standalone excerpt from Doppelganger that includes Chapter 13: The Nazi in the Mirror and Chapter 14: The Unshakable Ethnic Double plus an introduction and endnotes – free to read and share here.
On its release in September 2023, Doppelganger hit multiple bestseller lists in the US, including the New York Times and the Independent Booksellers Association national and regional lists, and it was a #1 bestseller in Canada for several weeks.
In December 2023, Doppelganger was selected for best-of-the year lists including The New York Times Notable Books of 2023, Time Magazine Top Ten Non-Fiction Books of the Year, a Guardian Best Idea Book of 2023, The Times (UK) Books of the Year, an Audible Books Best of the Year for non-fiction audiobooks, Slate’s 10 Best Books of 2023, Amazon’s Top 20 Nonfiction Books of 2023, The New York Times list of Best Audiobooks of 2023, Goodreads Choice Awards nominee for Best Nonfiction of the Year, where it came #6 out of 15 nominees, and more. New York Magazine’s Vulture named Doppelganger #1 Book of the Year:
“No recent book has better captured the absurdities and perils of the current moment in politics and culture and digital life than Doppelganger…. Other Naomi’s descent into right-wing madness is just a jumping-off point for Klein to explore a shadow world that exists concurrent to our own, where facts are malleable and disinformation is abundant, where conspiracy theories distort and exploit our very legitimate fears, and where fascism can arise as democracy’s evil twin.”
“This book is a must-read even before Klein gets to unforgettable observations about ethnic doppelgängers and her experience as a Jewish woman who once reported from Gaza. With humor and empathy and a sharp eye that can deconstruct systemic injustices with the same ease as Twitter drama, Klein uses copious film and literary references as she skewers everything from the wellness industry to AI.”
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January 10, 2024
By Naomi Klein
In 2005, Palestinians called on the world to boycott Israel until it complied with international law. What if we had listened?
Exactly 15 years ago this week, I published an article in the Guardian. It began like this: Enough. It’s time for a boycott.
Back in January 2009, Israel had unleashed a shocking new stage of mass killing in the Gaza Strip, calling its ferocious bombing campaign Operation Cast Lead. It killed 1,400 Palestinians in 22 days; the number of casualties on the Israeli side was 13. That was the last straw for me, and after years of reticence I came out publicly in support of the Palestinian-led call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights, known as BDS.
October 11, 2023
By Naomi Klein
In Gaza and Israel, side with the child over the gun…True solidarity. Humanism that unites people across ethnic and religious lines. Fierce opposition to all forms of identity-based hatred, including antisemitism. An international left rooted in values that side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child. A left that is unshakably morally consistent, and does not mistake that consistency with moral equivalency between occupier and occupied.