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Perfect Victims

And the Politics of Appeal

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Perfect Victims

By: Mohammed El-Kurd
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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.

©2025 Mohammed El-Kurd (P)2025 Tantor Media
Freedom & Security Human Rights Ideologies & Doctrines Israel & Palestine Middle East Politics & Government

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“Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.”—Robin D. G. Kelley

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Essential reading for everyone. What can I say besides Free Palestine - All of it, from the river to the sea and everything in between.

Excellent. Essential reading

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Bracing and beautiful, courageous and uncompromising, Mohammed El-Kurd gives the world a window into what it means to grow up under occupation and now to be living through a genocide of one's people. He unflinchingly dissects and rejects the impossible rhetorical strictures placed on Palestinians asserting their humanity and articulating their rights.

A must-read perspective on the Palestinian experience

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This is a deeply honest and heart wrenching book about the plight of the palestinians! An absolute must read for anyone willing to learn about what it is to be a palestinian

Heart wrenching

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