{"product_id":"perfect-victims-and-the-politics-of-appeal","title":"Perfect Victims – and the Politics of Appeal","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Here’s a river of fire. Dive in, if you dare. It will clear the fog.”\u003cbr\u003e—Arundhati Roy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePalestine 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. [publishers’ note]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Great poets are truth-tellers, and the truth hurts.”\u003cbr\u003e—Robin D. G. Kelley\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358156628308,"sku":"A8B-35152","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Perfect_20Victims.jpg?v=1790814211","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/perfect-victims-and-the-politics-of-appeal","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}