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Perfect victims and the politics of appeal / Mohammed El-Kurd.

Summary:

"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?" --Publisher description

Record details

ISBN: 9798888903155
ISBN: 9798888903179
Physical Description: 245 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2025.
Copyright: ©2025

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	the sniper's hands are clean of blood -- the politics of defanging -- Shireen's passport -- a life in cross-examination -- tropes and drones -- mein kampf in the playroom -- miraculous epiphanies -- are we indeed all Palestinians? -- "do you want to throw Israelis into the sea?" -- rain is coming -- index