Smart review of The Hidden Hand

From Adam Marks, podcaster and Boston guy. I really thought he got it. (Not the bestseller part, though!)

"An altogether unsurprising but still brutal, devastating, and painfully numbing book to read, The Hidden Hand details the massive, clandestine, and decades-long virulently antisemitic propaganda campaign that is being waged against the State of Israel and the Jewish people, and that there is no doubt a “hidden hand” — Iran, Qatar, China, Russia, Hamas, etc. — that are pulling the levers and controlling and bankrolling an operation that has proven to be destructive and effective in stamping out truth, nuance, and context after the atrocities of October 7th, 2023.

Warren Kinsella is a prodigious writer and author, and also a longtime political strategist and legal advocate for victims of hate, and although he is not Jewish, he is passionate about uncovering the ways in which Millennials and Gen Z, in particular — but all of us on social media, really — are being manipulated and conned into supporting hateful terrorist organizations that target Jews and western society, values, culture and beliefs, and he patiently lays out his case that this was not something that happened overnight, but in fact was propagated and culled over time to have maximum effect after October 7th, as the first protests and rally’s started to take shape even as the attacks were still underway.

Kinsella is a sharp writer and thinker, and this is a sobering book that will probably never be a best-seller and perhaps live on the fringes of mainstream discourse, so to speak, but his interviews, notes, and conclusions leave no doubt that antisemitism will continue to skyrocket around the globe with disastrous effects if we are not careful to call out and respond to hate when and where it exists, and educate future generations to understand how, when, and where they are being manipulated with information that can be used to hurt other people — or even worse, if another October 7th were ever to happen again."