Perfect victims and the politics of appeal
"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 the...