Join us on Sunday, June 22, 2-3:30 PM for a Zoom conversation with @sim_bookstagrams_badly about their New York Times bestseller, Genocide Bad. An audience Q&A will follow the moderated discussion. Register here: Meeting Registration - Zoom

A novelist, journalist, former middle-school teacher, and book influencer, Kern won international recognition—and gained 500,000 social media followers—as an anti-Zionist Jewish activist in the days after October 7th. The daily videos Kern then began posting on Palestinian, Jewish, and colonial history went viral with tens of millions of views. “Genocide Bad” melds the lively, personal voice of these videos with in-depth research that boldly and systematically refutes Zionist propaganda while pointing a way toward genuine liberation for all.

The book’s “secret, nefarious agenda,” writes Kern, is to convert readers into comrades in the “fight against genocide” and to equip those already “engaged in that fight” with “rhetorical skills” and information that will enable them to dismantle arguments meant to silence them. With its wealth of facts and its variety of rhetorical strategies and tones, “Genocide Bad” is ideal for helping readers persuade reluctant family and community members to question the beliefs that prevent them from speaking out against the genocide of Palestinians.

The JVP-DC Metro Book Group is currently reading Genocide Bad and eagerly looking forward to discussing it with Kern. We welcome new members!

Register here: Meeting Registration - Zoom

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