Jews Don't Count

By David Baddiel,

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North American Edition of the UK Bestseller

How identity politics failed one particular identity.

'a must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's just the clue to know you do.' SARAH SILVERMAN

'a masterpiece.'
STEPHEN FRY

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I have long felt the need to push my feelings about being a Jewish American woman to the background when considering and discussing issues of oppression; British writer and comedian David Baddiel tells me why I feel this way and why I should not.

Jews Don’t Count is a bold polemic, a detailed, vivid, and often witty explanation of why oppression must not be a competitive practice. He explains how Jewishness is made synonymous with privilege by both the political Right and the Left despite lived experience to the contrary. And he makes plain that Jewishness must be explored via…

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