Abstract
During the Intifada, discourses of Jewish Israeli terror victims (nifgei terror) are modeled after and thought to do work similar to that of Holocaust victims. At the same time, Holocaust victimhood itself remains a political discourse of the present. Assumptions of commensurability between past and present victims can conceal the magnitude of Palestinian suffering and of Israeli agency. This is a problem for contemporary politics, but it is also a problem for the anthropologist studying victimhood, where the task is to analyse, but not to reproduce the binaries and exclusive claims generated by victim discourses. This article suggests that, by studying Israeli society’s contestation of victim politics and categories, we can engage in a writing of victimhood that does not also enact victim politics.
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