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Perfect Victims

And the Politics of Appeal

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Perfect Victims

By: Mohammed El-Kurd
Narrated by: Mohammed El-Kurd
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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? 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.

©2025 Mohammed El-Kurd (P)2025 Tantor Media Freedom & Security Israel & Palestine Middle East Political Science Politics & Government
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Critic reviews

“Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.”—Robin D. G. Kelley
All stars
Most relevant
Well written; concise, precise, academic and a very important read.
Thank you Mohammed.
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Free Palestine

Excellent must read

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Poetic, powerful and heartwrenching, I wish this book could movilize us all into world action. I does what it can, the rest is up to us.

Heartwrenching

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Mohammed El-Kurd as narrator and author is stupendously good. Perfect Victims is a future classic, it cannot be described just experienced. Free Palestine ♡

Stunningly brutal & beautiful

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One of those books that you will read over and over, learning something new every time.

Amazing read

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I’m so glad I read this. Challenging and very well written. It somehow managed to be refreshingly direct at the same time as being well-constructed (a carefully constructed argument by someone who cares about language as well as the topic)

Thought-provoking and thoughtful

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