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gael-garcia · 6 months

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The Palestinian (1977)

#the palestinian 1977 #vanessa redgrave #gaza #ramallah #tulkarm #ayn ghazal #jerusalem #bethlehem #haifa #jaffa #documentary #screencaps #post #history #tatreez #artistry #jerusalem and tulkarem my favess #textiles #art

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saddayfordemocracy · 6 months

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How the Watermelon Became a Symbol of Palestinian Solidarity

The use of the watermelon as a Palestinian symbol is not new. It first emerged after the Six-day War in 1967, when Israel seized control of the West Bank and Gaza, and annexed East Jerusalem. At the time, the Israeli government made public displays of the Palestinian flag a criminal offense in Gaza and the West Bank.

To circumvent the ban, Palestinians began using the watermelon because, when cut open, the fruit bears the national colors of the Palestinian flag—red, black, white, and green.

The Israeli government didn't just crack down on the flag. Artist Sliman Mansour told The National in 2021 that Israeli officials in 1980 shut down an exhibition at 79 Gallery in Ramallah featuring his work and others, including Nabil Anani and Issam Badrl. “They told us that painting the Palestinian flag was forbidden, but also the colors were forbidden. So Issam said, ‘What if I were to make a flower of red, green, black and white?’, to which the officer replied angrily, ‘It will be confiscated. Even if you paint a watermelon, it will be confiscated,’” Mansour told the outlet.

Israel lifted the ban on the Palestinian flag in 1993, as part of the Oslo Accords, which entailed mutual recognition by Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization and were the first formal agreements to try to resolve the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The flag was accepted as representing the Palestinian Authority, which would administer Gaza and the West Bank.

In the wake of the accords, the New York Times nodded to the role of watermelon as a stand-in symbol during the flag ban. “In the Gaza Strip, where young men were once arrested for carrying sliced watermelons—thus displaying the red, black and green Palestinian colors—soldiers stand by, blasé, as processions march by waving the once-banned flag,” wrote Times journalist John Kifner.

In 2007, just after the Second Intifada, artist Khaled Hourani created The Story of the Watermelon for a book entitled Subjective Atlas of Palestine. In 2013, he isolated one print and named it The Colours of the Palestinian Flag, which has since been seen by people across the globe.

The use of the watermelon as a symbol resurged in 2021, following an Israeli court ruling that Palestinian families based in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem would be evicted from their homes to make way for settlers.

The watermelon symbol today:

In January, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir gave police the power to confiscate Palestinian flags. This was later followed by a June vote on a bill to ban people from displaying the flag at state-funded institutions, including universities. (The bill passed preliminary approval but the government later collapsed.)

In June, Zazim, an Arab-Israeli community organization, launched a campaign to protest against the ensuing arrests and confiscation of flags. Images of watermelons were plastered on to 16 taxis operating in Tel Aviv, with the accompanying text reading, “This is not a Palestinian flag.”

“Our message to the government is clear: we will always find a way to circumvent any absurd ban and we will not stop fighting for freedom of expression and democracy,” said Zazim director Raluca Ganea.

Amal Saad, a Palestinian from Haifa who worked on the Zazim campaign, told Al-Jazeera they had a clear message: “If you want to stop us, we’ll find another way to express ourselves.”

Words courtesy of BY ARMANI SYED / TIME

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sayruq · 13 days

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Details about Iran’s drone attack on Israel so far

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #iran #haifa #regional war #Edited

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radicalgraff · 3 months

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"24,000 killed, 10,000 of them children.

Stop the genocide"

Anti-war graffiti seen in Haifa

#haifa #graffiti #free palestine #free gaza

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odinsblog · 6 months

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“That’s my history. Strange thing, that I and my family would do it again,” he said.

Safad, which is the city that my father lived there for hundreds of years, with his father and grandfather and great grandfather and so on, when a ship came from Poland with refugees, Jewish refugees from Poland and Germany, whatever, and they went to several countries first went to America, and they went to Cuba and they won't let them off.

So they came to Haifa.

And funny enough, Haifa is a port that my great grandfather built, and they had a banner on the side of their boat saying, “We lost our homes in Germany and our hope can you, don't let us lose our hope here in your country.”

And they took them, they took two families each. Took two families and others did, and brought them to our house, to my father's house, and they lived with us for two and a half years.

And when I was, when my mother was pregnant with me, my mother went to Nazareth to her parents house.

She had me and I was nine days old when she came back to Safad to take me inside our home, and we were locked out. The fact I came back home and they won't even let us in into our home.

When my mother begged them to get a shershef or something to put around me, they wouldn't let her.

So she moved on down to the refugee camp in Syria somewhere.

—Mohamed Hadid

#politics #mohamed hadid #palestine #gaza #israel #nakba #israel is an apartheid state #hamas ≠ palestine #gigi hadid #bella hadid #displacement #illegal annexation #haifa #al nakba

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matan4il · 2 months

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Missing traveling and seeing my beautiful country. </3

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lets-make-light-now · 13 days

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Zionist have also harmed the reputation of every Jew on this planet.

My concern is that people have difficulty to differ between a Zionist and a Jew.

Zionists are no Jews. They miss use the Jewish faith to justify genocide, child rape and land theft. They openly give hate speeches, they consider them selfs better than the non Jews animals, also white Jews are better than Asian and much better than African Jews.

Jews are not like that at all. They want to practice a peaceful religion with coexisting with other believes in harmony. This behavior that 80% of Israeli have has nothing to do with Judaism but with racism equal to that Jews revived from the third Reich.

So if Zionists have painted a target on every Jews back, please don't punish Jews for it.

There are Jews for a Free Palestine too!

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girlactionfigure · 2 months

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#Israel #OTD #Haifa #SuicideBomber #Bus 37

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humanoidhistory · 6 months

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The abandoned Haifa Bat Galim central bus station, Israel, built in 1968. Photo by Eli Singalavski. Via Domus.

#haifa #israel #bat halim #architecture #brutalism #brutalist #black and white

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workersolidarity · 20 days

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🇮🇱 🚨

ISRAELI POLICE ASSAULT DEMONSTRATORS

📹 Footage from demonstrations against Israeli occupation Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, where Israeli police get violent with protesters in Haifa, in the occupied Palestinian territories.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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secular-jew · 5 days

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Arab Muslim perspective on Israel based on personal experience.

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moonkissedclub · 6 months

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Leila Khaled, Hijacker (2005)

Could you be described as a terrorist?

Our enemies say so. Our enemies call any form of popular resistance terrorism.

What you did was an act of terrorism.

Who decides and defines what terrorism is? As far as I’m concerned, occupation is terrorism. My people and I have a right to fight it. I don’t care what others call it. People have a right to fight those who occupy their country by all means–possible including weapons. That’s what it says in the UN declaration.

#free palestine #free gaza #gaza #west bank #palestine #Haifa #from the river to the sea #leila khaled #she says this 31 mins into the vid btw

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radicalgraff · 4 months

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"In Gaza and Sderot children want to live"

Anti-war stencils on a pro-war banner that says "together we'll win" hanging outside of a highschool in Haifa.

#free gaza #haifa #graffiti #antiwar #stencil

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archaeologicalnews · 2 years

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In a first, coin bearing zodiac found off Israel's coast

Israel's Antiquities Authority said Monday it has discovered a rare 1,850-year-old bronze zodiac coin during an underwater survey off the coastal city of Haifa.

The coin bears the image of the zodiac sign Cancer behind a depiction of the moon goddess Luna.

Experts say the coin was minted in Alexandria, Egypt, under the rule of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, who ruled between the years 138–161 A.D. It is part of a series of 13 coins depicting the 12 zodiac signs and one of the entire zodiac wheel.

The antiquities authority said it was the first time such a coin has been found off the Israeli coast. Read more.

#archaeology #coin #archeology #Israel #zodiac #cancer #zodiac sign #haifa

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officialempressofhell · 7 months

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Anyone here have access to any libraries in israel or the big ones in new york or england?

I need a copy of two page of a book and no libraries close to me have them

#new york #haifa #budapest #jerusalem #beer sheva #tel aviv

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