Perfect Victims

And the Politics of Appeal

De: Mohammed El-Kurd

Narrado por: Mohammed El-Kurd

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

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.”—Robin D. G. Kelley

Gratitude

dear one-thank you for this ❤️
the rain is coming -we can hear her misty cold air on its way.

Poetry

On the one hand, powerful, emotional, moving, beautifully crafted words. A true masterclass in poetry that does an excellent job in showing the world the worth of the Palestinians as human beings capable of intellect and art. On the other hand, poor audio quality and a plethora of unsubstantiated claims. Selective criticism of the US for interfering too much or too little (depending on the falacy being attempted) does no good to the valid argument that the 1948 Nakba and the disastrous geopolitics that followed are some of the worst embarrassments of our species. The failure to sufficiently acknowledge and address the role of Islamist death cults in worsening the conflict invalidates what could have been a foundational document of a rational, just, and reasonable, even if justifiably violent, resistance against radical religious land thiefs.

Must read! Piercing unapologetic needed truth

Our Edward Said of this time! This appeal is so needed to be talked thru - listen to - wrestled inside and brought close to your heart to consider these very blatant truths that the world has been bamboozled and brainwashed to refute. This appeal is truth - bare - brutal - honest and the reality of this moment and preceding decades of brutalizing and sadistic colonialism - one we have been spoon fed to believe and forced to make decisions on who is more human - the colonizers or the colonized ? We have been gaslit to think the abuser can remedy the abused. Mohammed cut thru all this flagrant bs to speak just powerful and real truth to what is happening in Palestine and challenges you to think outside the colonial brainwashed mind to find your humanity again thru all this insane madness from Zionism.

Excellent. Essential reading

Essential reading for everyone. What can I say besides Free Palestine - All of it, from the river to the sea and everything in between.

A must-read perspective on the Palestinian experience

Bracing and beautiful, courageous and uncompromising, Mohammed El-Kurd gives the world a window into what it means to grow up under occupation and now to be living through a genocide of one's people. He unflinchingly dissects and rejects the impossible rhetorical strictures placed on Palestinians asserting their humanity and articulating their rights.

Heart wrenching

This is a deeply honest and heart wrenching book about the plight of the palestinians! An absolute must read for anyone willing to learn about what it is to be a palestinian

Everyone needs to read this

In a time when the “liberal” and “progressive” media and journalists are running to cover their asses with sanitized platforming of Palestinian voices — two years into a genocide — Perfect Victims is anything but. A must-read.