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100	1		_aEl-Kurd, Mohammed
245	1	0	_aPerfect victims : _band the politics of appeal _cby Mohammed El-Kurd
260			_aChicago : _bHaymarket Books, _c©2025
300			_a245 p. ; _c20 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_t1. The sniper's hands are clean of blood
505	0		_t2. The politics of defanging
505	0		_t3. Shireen's passport
505	0		_t4. A life in cross-examination
505	0		_t5. Tropes and drones
505	0		_t6. Mein kampf in the playroom
505	0		_t7. Miraculous epiphanies
505	0		_t8. Are we indeed all Palestinians?
505	0		_t9. "Do you want to throw Israelis into the sea?"
520			_aPerfect 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. -- Publisher description
650		0	_aOctober 7 Hamas Attack, Israel, 2023
650		0	_aIsrael-Hamas War
650		0	_aIsraeli-Palestinian conflict
650		0	_aArab-Israeli conflict
650		0	_aRacism
650		0	_aGenocide
651		0	_aPalestine
651		0	_aGaza Strip
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