It’s possible to criticize and even call for the dismantlement of Israel without puffing up a group like Hamas, and yet—
Human Rights Watch sez (basically all the horrible things Israel does to detainees, the PA and Hamas also do). It’s fair to “both sides” something when both sides commit serious civil rights violations. www.hrw.org/news/2018/10...
The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas authorities in Gaza routinely arrest and torture peaceful critics and opponents.
Is your critique that the book or this event normalizes Hamas (which tbc I think is awful), or somehow valorizes it? The book sounds like an attempt to understand (the rise of) Hamas as a political entity in a complex context, not as a heroic wing of global anti-imperial resistance.