Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

Mohammed El-Kurd

'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 : how we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else.

Author(s): El-Kurd, Mohammed
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 11/02/2025
Pagination: 245 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Published By: Haymarket Books
Book Classification: Human rights, civil rights|Colonialism & imperialism|Political science & theory|Politics & government
Dimensions: 190 x 133
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ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9798888903155