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Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

El-Kurd, Mohammed

Hardcover

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN13: 9798888903179
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Feb 11 2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.
--Robin D. G. Kelley

Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.

Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured--the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial.

Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical precision, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye, forgoing both deference and condemnation.

How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian.

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