Diary of a Spice SellerMohammed al-Batniji, Drizzle-Dazzle, £10WE know all too well that to carry out a genocide the perpetrators must convince themselves that their victims are not human like themselves but can be treated like “things.” Racism is integral to genocide. And even for those opposing genocide, there is a tendency to view its victims as an abstract and undifferentiated mass.

RUTH AYLETT recommends that this mixture of memoir, diary and poetry by a young Gazan writer be read as widely as possible

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