"and requires Palestinians to maintain a posture of pitiable powerlessness. Indeed, the perfect Palestinian victim cannot express ragenot toward their Israeli occupiers, nor the soldiers killing their people en masse, nor the Western powers that send funds and arms to their murderers. Even in the context of occupation and genocide, they must exhibit only passive suffering and a desire for reconciliation; any other affect or expression threatens to eject them from the narrow role of sympathetic object. Banishing Palestinian resistance from the frame, this recourse to appeal ultimately strengthens the Zionist project it often purports to contest. Of course, as El-Kurd readily acknowledges, this terrible bindin which victims of structural violence are coerced into an impossibly constrained position or even blamed for their own oppressionis neither new nor particular to Palestinians. I wrote about this phenomenon in the context of American anti-Blackness more than a decade ago, in an essay called Against Innocence. In that piece, I argued that a liberal politics of recognition can only reproduce a guilt-innocence schematization that fails to grapple with the fact that there is an a priori associa"

"the wavering of Hinds small voice made the depth of Israels brutality intimately present. We could feel the childs utter desperation as she pleaded from inside the car"

"navigating the vexed question of what it means to speak under conditions of extraordinary repression. El-Kurd grew up in half of his familys home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah; the other half had been stolen by settlers from Long Island."

"El-Kurd grew up in half of his familys home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah; the other half had been stolen by settlers from Long Island."