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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.
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