GNN: Guerrilla Reviewing

by Counterpunch (reposted)

Tue, Oct 17, 2006 5:47PM

The Guerrilla News Network web site seems slightly retro, slightly well-off, slightly out-of-kilter cool, like Lily Allen in a Che Guevara T-shirt. The guys may wear berets. They do guerrilla book reviews:
you attack, and when the clumsy reaction force finally gets in place, you're gone! The review vanishes, as if it had never been, into some misty Sierra Madre of the internet.

In my case the attack was on The Case Against Israel, and the attacker is Ari Paul, who also does music reviews. I read the review, a couple of weeks late, I write a reply, I send it to GNN. But I don't get the guerrilla reviewers, I get the guerrilla apparatchiks. They only have first names, like code names.

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The 'Guerilla News Network' seems quite upset that my book, The Case against Israel, defends the Palestinians even when they're guerillas. Mr. Ari Paul, who doubtless has no axe to grind, prefers "pragmatic and rational insight". He says that "for Michael Neumann... Israel's independence in 1948 was like a giant glass of milk spilling over a World War II era map of the Middle East. More than a half-century and several armed conflicts later, this grown man is still sobbing about it... ."

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