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Mar 2025
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Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appe...

Chris Hedges
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Any account of the decades-long occupation of Palestine from a Palestinian is immediately expected to be refined within a specific lens to appeal to the pathos of Western society. Well meaning activists, journalists and politicians may intend to share the stories of Palestinians, but end up curating them into a digestible format, one adjacent to the truth ra ... Show More
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