Perfect Victims

<p><em>“Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.”</em><strong><em><br>—Robin D. G. Kelley<br><br>Perfect Victims</em> is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal?an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.</strong><br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, <em>Perfect Victims</em> presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian.</p>