From 2009 to 2013, Max Blumenthal made a series of trips to Israel to witness and report on the reality of political and social life in Israel. The picture that emerges from his examination of Israel explains perfectly why both the Israeli Apartheid protests and the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) exist and why they‘re necessary. Blumenthal‘s book covers a lot of territory, from the ethnic cleansing that originally created the state of Israel to the political persecution of its Palestinian citizens to the all-pervasive racism that forms the emotional backbone of Israel‘s de facto system of apartheid.