Rachel Buteaux’s Reviews > Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal > Status Update
Rachel Buteaux
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“What if our perfect victims do in fact despise those who have killed their families? … What if, after … a soldier of the self-proclaimed “Jewish state” killed your loved ones in cold blood, you began to obsessively, irrationally hate Jews …Then what? Does your venomous sentiment undermine your status as a victim? Does it rewrite history to absolve the soldier of his sins? Does it justify the crime?”
— Jun 15, 2026 01:53AM
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Rachel Buteaux
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if they advocate for themselves, they must narrate only their personal tragedies. … it must remain individualistic, never for a collective cause and never through an organised collective, and must solely seek to remedy humanitarian crises that, like earthquakes and eclipses, occur in isolation from the global state of affairs.”
— Jun 05, 2026 09:15PM
Rachel Buteaux
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“Those who are deemed terrorists never get the opportunity to speak for themselves and are rarely offered due diligence … on the other hand, those who are victims .. are sometimes given the microphone and asked to speak. .. their anguished cries exist outside of history and politics, their injuries are reported without a culprit. …
— Jun 05, 2026 09:15PM
Rachel Buteaux
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“Here in the West … Palestines exist in a false - and strict - dichotomy: we are either victims or terrorists.”
— Jun 05, 2026 09:14PM
Rachel Buteaux
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“The sniper here, the removed fighter hire with the authority to erase our existence without ever having to engage it, endures in both a literal sense, on our hilltops and rooftops, and a metaphorical sense, in governments and in newsrooms. In this reality, the sniper’s hands are clean of blood.”
— Jun 05, 2026 08:45PM
