Perfect Victims And the Politics of Appeal

Mohammed El-Kurd

eBook - 2025

PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER "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 i...mpossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical... more