Finished this. What a blistering, unflinching, eloquent book.
Hard recommend.
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Black text on white background. Transcribed text: I did not “announce” that Shireen was a citizen of the United States. And when I wrote about her murder, I insisted to my editors that, if I must mention this fact, I would refer to her as a carrier of a US passport, not as an American citizen. Why contribute—even if only with a simple phrase—to a hierarchy of lives where citizenry, like race, class, gender, “civility,” plays a role in determining whether someone deserves compassion or due diligence? I wanted the world to stand still over the death of a Palestinian, regardless of qualifiers. But that didn’t matter: within hours, the news spread like wildfire. Her passport was the talking point. Shireen was an American and her alleged Americanness swiftly made her human. — Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
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Black text on white background. Transcribed text: “You discredit the messenger as a way of discrediting the message” has long been an Israeli mantra. 14 For our plight cannot be “discredited,” but our characters can be. They turn us into criminals of thought, guilty of our rage and grudges, of our natural responses to brutalization. They test our answers against the viewer’s inherent bias. The bombs raining down on the besieged Gaza Strip become secondary, if not entirely irrelevant, to our televised trials. We die a lot as defendants. — Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
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#CurrentlyReading Perfect Victims: and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd and Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them by Maeve Higgins. #books #reading #BookSky #PerfectVictims
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"While passively consuming it, the true depth didn't reach me - I didn't let it. What a luxury position, to be able to decide if you want to fully engage with a genocide or not. Let's finish with a wise quote from a friend, Neske, who said: - Mohammed El-Kurd dug deep inside himself to write this book; it's palpable in the pages. The only way to honour that, is to do the same yourself." Via sebbiebikes on insta
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"Mohammed El-Kurd dug deep inside himself to write this book;
it's palpable in the pages. The only way to honour that, is to do the same yourself."
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If I had to describe #PerfectVictims in two words, it would be "unapologetically dignified".
I recommend this (more relevant than ever) read to anyone who can, well, read.
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Image of Palestinian and Arab men congregating outside of a mosque.
In conversation with Tracy J. Jawad, el-Kurd discusses his latest book and explores the limitations of individual activism in the face of systemic violence.
Read more here: thepublicsource.org/mohammed-kur...
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"We die a lot. We die in fleeting headlines, in between breaths. Our death is so quotidian that journalists report it as though they’re reporting the weather: Cloudy skies, light showers, and 3,000 Palestinians dead in the past ten days" #perfectvictims #freepalestine
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Everyone go read this book immediately then read it again
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#BookSky #book #PerfectVictims #MohammedElKurd #interview #AbbyMartin #EmpireFiles #news #worldnews #genocide #FreePalestine #Gaza
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#PerfectVictims is a tremendous book — written as only a poet could have, who is also a journalist & activist.
Read it to understand how dehumanized Palestinians are & contortions they must perform to be worthy of pity/dignity 🇵🇸
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-p... #Palestine #booksky #Gaza
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When poet Mohammed El Kurd says: Zionism is the leading cause of death in occupied Palestine.
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