Mohammed El-Kurd's essay accuses the West of scripting Palestinian suffering
In "Perfect Victims," the writer and poet argues that Palestinians are only granted a hearing in the West if they perform the role of blameless, suffering victims.
The Palestinian writer and poet Mohammed El-Kurd argues, in his essay "Perfect Victims," that Western audiences only extend sympathy and attention to Palestinians who conform to a narrow script: that of the innocent, passive sufferer, stripped of political agency or anger. Those who fail to fit this mold, he contends, are denied a hearing altogether.
According to Le Monde's review, El-Kurd frames this expectation as an injunction imposed from outside, one that forces Palestinians to prove their worthiness as victims before they can be heard at all.
Le Monde notes that the book's radicalism at times borders on what it calls the unjustifiable, suggesting a polemical, uncompromising tone rather than a measured argument.
No further details on the book's publisher, length, or any French translation were included in the available material.
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