May 4: Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd

May 4, Sunday (online)7pm Gaza |  12pm New York  |  5pm London  We will gather to speak about Mohammed El-Kurd's book Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal, a powerful indictment and staunch refusal of the world’s desire to see Palestinians only as victims, and as subjects of subjugation and death You can buy the book on the Haymarket Books website here. About the bookPerfect 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