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.

Yes, my critique is that, from the description provided, it valorizes it as a “key player in the global struggle against imperialism.” No doubt there are books that attempt to understand the rise of the group from an objective point of view. This doesn’t appear to be 1 of them from this description.