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
Jews Don't Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you. It is the comedian and writer David Baddiel's contention that one type of racism has been left out of this fight. In his unique combination of reasoning, polemic, personal experience and jokes, Baddiel argues that those who think of themselves as on the right side of history have often ignored the history of anti-Semitism. He outlines why and how, in a time of intensely heightened awareness of minorities, Jews don't count as a real minority.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144 pages
ISBN-10: 000853019X
Item Weight: 0.3 lbs
Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 7.8 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
"Jews Don't Count is 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
"David Baddiel is a brilliant thinker and writer. Even when I disagree with him--especially when I disagree with him--I feel profound gratitude for his intellectual and moral clarity. This is a brave and necessary book." -Jonathan Safran Foer
"In a fast, witty and occasionally furious 28,000 words, David Baddiel has pulled one of today's most contentious blind-spots into focus and laid out an inarguable and shameful truth: for many progressives, otherwise vociferous in their anti-racism, Jews, somehow, don't count. Just why and how this has happened … is all laid out here in a genuinely important piece of socio-political work that you can fit in your pocket, and which will almost certainly be passed around, with the hissed injunction 'You have to read this. It really does change everything', like the delicious, and occasionally sobering, truth bomb that it is." -Caitlin Moran
"Jews Don't Count is a supreme piece of reasoning and passionate, yet controlled, argument. From his first sentence, the energy, force and conviction of Baddiel's writing and thinking will transfix you…as readable as an airport thriller…a masterpiece." -Stephen Fry
David Baddiel was born in 1964 in Troy, New York, but grew up and lives in London. He is a comedian, television writer, columnist and author of four novels, of which the most recent is The Death of Eli Gold.
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