it is completely incomprehensible to me how so many readers don’t see the politics in books?? bad politics are definitely one of the biggest reasons why i can dislike a book, and one of the biggest reasons to why i can really love a book. thank you for speaking about this!!

they romanticize dystopian novels when its a reality for many. when you confront them about it they pull the “i have anxiety i cant talk about this”

I completely agree. It’s so disappointing seeing creators care more about aesthetics and followers than genocide. Books since the dawn of time have been political in some nature.

"How can you seperate the art from the artist when the art is the artist reflected in the writing?" right on the nail with that one. especially when the author supports genocide. there is no seperating the art from artist

I completely agree with you and it's really great that you chose to voice it. I recognise as a reader because I am commited to learning continuously and as much as it seems stupid social media does have a huge impact on people and can greatly shape their vision, I remember starting reading for literature and history but booktube really influenced me to read other genre which is not a bad thing but you read to learn and you need to be able to differentiate between right and wrong and you can't blindly choose aesthetics over value and morale. People sympathise and cry and rage over fictional characters but fail to recognise the cruelty when it comes to reality, I mean how much more of a hypocrite you can be and if you're not very sure about something, you have to educate yourself before you speak. I myself have iron flame with me (somebody gifted it to me and I appreciate their gesture and I wasn't aware of Rebecca being zionist) but I choose not to sing praises of someone who promotes genocide. I understand I was late but you learn from your mistakes and people take stupid things seriously (getting riled up just because someone enlightened you in the comments) and choose to ignore the real catastrophe.

i can't tell you how many creators i've unfollowed or unsubscribed to because of how much they were promoting these authors. Creators you thought were educated and aware because they can recognise themes of oppression in fiction but somehow can't stand against injustice in real life?? it's all very frustrating. I'm grateful that you use your voice and platform to spread awareness, i will work hard to do the same.

Thank you for uploading this! I appreciate you so much as a person. Can't wait for more content

Everything you said is so so right. I'm so glad you talked about this, someone had to.

We live in a selfish world, people only care about what personally affects them, like you on this case, but you can't expect everyone to follow, read, post what you want, everyone can post what they want on their own profiles. War and situations like what is happening right now have always been around in this world, most people just want to focus in what makes them happy, and reading/bookstagram sometimes is an scape from the ugliness of the real world.

I had no idea about Iron Flame. I was never a big fan of overly popular books because it was always more of a hype, than it was good. My instagram has been flooded with Iron Flame marketing and I haven't seen not one post about the author being a Zionist; except for this video. It's sad to be honest, it really is.

finally, someone speak up about duality of standards for some authors and thank you to aware me about them.#freepalestine.

this video was NEEDED!

Deleted my comment because I realized I’m a hypocrite and need to change a few things. Thank you for making this video

100% agree

i appreciate this video.

👏🏾👏🏾Well said!! 🫶🏾

Keep politics out of authors book profiles. Your politics aren’t always right and to millions of people you’re wrong too. Who cares about authors politics? If you’re that shallow you got a LOTTTTT of maturing to do

its insane seeing people promote zionists books during a time like this. like how out of touch are u????

BookTubers and really any KZfaq channel has the right to keep their channel non-political, current affairs. Just because a youtuber does not say anything on their channel does not mean they dont have views. They probably have views on a lot of things and you have no idea how they might be supporting things in the real world outside of the KZfaq sphere. Can you imagine if someone inserted themselves on your channel and stated you were for genocide in Congo because you have said nothing about it?....or that you must be against the Afghan people because you have said nothing about the 1.6 million Afghanis being displaced in Pakistan? Or maybe you are for the genocide of the Uyghurs because you have said nothing about them? According to your philosophy here, your silence on those subjects must mean you just dont care....The world sucks and there will always be atrocities because humans are terrible to each other. If you want to discuss what you believe on your channel then I think you should...but to say because people arent talking about the subject in their youtube world that most troubles you...then that makes them terrible is a bad take.

Also, Fourth Wing, a book about war was release during at a time where there is war between Rusia and Ukraine going on, with many innocents dying, and you supported that book, like it, and share it with your followers, so you are only against it now that it personally affects you, like the rest of the world, you only care about an issue once it personally touches you, can't blame other people for being the same as you were.

You wake up and decided to speak the THRUTH, its infuriating how people on instagram is acting, i stated in my bookstagram that depict loving fourth wing i will not post anything more about the series because of the author and shared a bunch of stuff about her as a zionist and such. I have NOT seen a single person on there boycotting the author or other zionist authors and people still act like crazy about iron flame and the translation of fourth wing to my language. It disgustes me

It’s the same situation with Russian skaters, that are not allowed to take part in skating competition. So many people doesn’t see that supporting Putin should also face the concequences (sr for my English, it’s about the message)

I feel sorry for you and truly empathize with your struggle as one of the minority groups in the world. Often, our voices are not just unheard but outright ignored. For minorities who are suppressed in a country, or small nations whose sovereignty is constantly threatened by larger, or more powerful nations, taking severe actions in a war or even initiating a war is not only a tragedy but also an act of ethnic cleansing. That sin has brought shame on them.😢 By the way, I bought a book from the Kinokuniya bookstore at Dubai Mall when I had a short stay there a few months ago. It's really nice to see that they have a clear section for Middle Eastern writers, and that's how I found this book which caught my attention. As a slow reader, it will be in my TBR for next year. The book is called 'Gaza Weddings' by Ibrahim Nasrallah. Currently, I'm reading 'Ten Myths about Israel' by Ilan Pappé. It seems like this writer has a controversial reputation after this book was published, and I'm curious about a different perspective from an author whose work is not welcomed by his country.

Am. So the authors are Israeli. That's why you want to cancel them? That's the same as cancelling of Palestinian for Hamas, you know