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Interview: Mohammed El-Kurd explains how the west forces Palestinians to become "Perfect Victims".

He also describes a childhood overtaken by Israeli settlers & the Americans who've joined them:

The guy currently in our house is from Long Island. He has fled fraud charges in the US & has found himself a safe haven in our home.

There's a large number of Jewish New York residents in these kinds of settler groups.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/perfect-victims-and-the-politics

#USPol #SettlerColonialism #Nakba #EthnicCleansing .
Chris Hedges The writer and poet Mohammed el-Kurd, who is the Palestine correspondent for The Nation magazine, grew up in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. His childhood was dominated by the intrusion of Israeli colonists who steadily seized larger and larger parts of his neighborhood, ruthlessly evicting Palestinian families from their homes. Harassment, detentions, arrests, beatings and shootings of Palestinians by the Israeli occupation forces was a nearly daily occurrence. Mohamed, who earned an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and a BFA from the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), also came to understand that the way the world perceives Palestinians, and the way Zionists and their supporters manipulate the narrative of Palestinian dispossession, puts Palestinians into an impossible position, one he refers to as the “perfect victim.” Palestinians, dehumanized and condemned in western narratives, are repeatedly asked to prove their humanity, forced into the impossible role of perfect victims. “Dehumanization has situated us - ejected us - outside of the human condition,” he writes, “so much so that what is logically understood to be a man’s natural reaction to subjugation is an uncontained and incomprehensible, primal behavior if it comes from us. What makes some people heroes is what makes us criminals. It is almost simplistic to say we are guilty by birth.

Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (w/ Mohammed el-Kurd) | The Chris Hedges Report

Mohammed el-Kurd's new book sheds light on the ways in which Palestinians are forced by the panopticon of the West's gaze to censor and curate their true identities.
Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
#uspol #ethniccleansing #nakba #settlercolonialism
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