November 4 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
HYBRID EVENT – Join us on Wednesday November 4, 7-8:30 PM to discuss “Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal” by Mohammed El-Kurd, hosted by the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington Palestinian Solidarity Team and co-sponsored by the PJC.
In person at FUUSB, 152 Pearl St, Burlington. Email or5ka@yahoo.com for zoom link.
All are welcome, regardless of how much of the book you’ve read.
This book became a New York Times Best Seller, a USA Today bestseller, and a national indie bestseller. It won the 2025 Palestine Book Award, and historian Robin D. G. Kelley praised it as a “new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century”.
“While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured — the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial. …
How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian.” (From the publisher)
Three years ago, shortly after the genocide’s escalation began, Mohammed El-Kurd had been scheduled to speak on this topic as part of the Will Miller Social Justice Series. Despite decades of collaboration between WMSJS and UVM, the university withdrew itself as host of the event mere days before it set to happen. The talk proceeded online, hosted on publisher Haymarket Books youtube, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pywRqDtkuyo