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Palestinian Writer Mohammed El-Kurd on "Perfect Victims" & Israel's Criminalization of Thought
We speak with the acclaimed Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd on the publication day for his new book, Perfect Victims_. It comes at a time of heightened censorship and attacks on Palestinian expression in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as well as in the United States and elsewhere. _Perfect Victims explores ongoing Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation and human rights abuses and the "impossible demand made of the Palestinians" to be sympathetic in the eyes of international observers. He says that pressure leads to "curating yourself in a way that is not offensive to the Western gaze." El-Kurd also discusses U.S. attacks on the Palestine solidarity movement, President Donald Trump's calls for ethnically cleansing Gaza, Israeli attacks in the occupied West Bank and his own family's history of fighting eviction from their home in East Jerusalem.
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