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Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century. n --Robin D. G. Kelley n n Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. n n 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. n n 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. n n 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. n NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER n n Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century. n -Robin D. G. Kelley n n Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. n n 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. n n 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. n n How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER n n Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century. n -Robin D. G. Kelley n n Perfect Victims is
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