Here is an art project from an Israeli that I believe will resonate very well.
Sivan Hurvitz posted:
This is my senior project in visual communication studies in HIT - Holon Institute of Technology, instructed by Judith Asher.
This project criticizes my country’s current government’s anti-democratic direction in the past two years. It is a series of illustrations that show an apocalyptic future scenario, in order to provoke and raise questions among Israelis about the direction the country is going.
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Following the publication of the Goldstone Committee’s conclusions, that accuse both Israel and Hamas of war crimes,
the “Im Tirtzu” movement launched a media campaign that presents Human Rights organizations as collaborators with the enemy. The movement published a report claiming that most of the convictive testimonies comprising Goldstone’s report originate in various Israeli Human Rights organizations. What followed in May 2010 was a legislative bill that proposed the delegitimization of all Israeli organizations and associations providing information to foreign authorities in order to bring military officers and politicians suspected of committing war crimes to justice.
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In May 2010 a member of Be’er Sheva’s city council, Zachariya Ohev Shalom, attacked the municipal decision to sponsor a pride parade in the city of Be’er Sheva. He stated:”I don’t hate the gay-lesbian community in Be’er Sheva, they are simply sick and in need of treatment”.
cornynote: I believe the words translate into something similar to it being a treatment hospital for homosexuality
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In 2002 the Demographic Council’s operation was renewed, its stated goal being to provide recommendations on actions to be taken in order to assure the preservation of a Jewish majority in Israel. Shlomo Benizri, serving atthe time as the Minister of Social Affairs, stated in this context that “the fear of losing Israel’s unique character obligates us to take action so as not to become a minority inour own country within a decade or two”.
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On May 2010 Professor Noam Chomsky, a renowned linguist and critic of Israeli policy in the occupied territories, was denied entry into the occupied territories. The Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that the decision was theirs and within the bounds of the ministry’s jurisdiction. In an interview following the incident, Chomsky mentioned that he was told that the government does not approve of his opinions and of the fact that he chose to visit Bir-zeit University instead of an Israeli University.
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On April 2009 the “Israel Beiteinu” (Israel Our Home) party presented a legislative bill that came to be called the “Loyalty Law”. According to the bill, receiving an Israeli citizenship should be dependent on agreeing and signing a declaration of “loyalty to the state of Israel as a Jewish, Zionist and Democratic state, to its symbols and values respectively”. The bill obligates every citizen to serve in the Israeli military or in the ranks of alternative organizations, and authorizes the Minister of Internal Affairs to revoke the citizenship of whoever refuses to sign or to serve the country according to the aforementioned declaration.
cornynote: This is a statue of Avigdor Lieberman, current leader of Yisrael Beiteinu.
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In July 2010 the Ministerial Committee on Legislative Issues approved the “Nakba Bill”, which in its initial stages tried to set an imprisonment sentence to whoever commemorates the Israeli Independence day as aday of mourning, and in its current form calls for denial of public founding to any organization that does so. Several days later the Ministry of Education decided to liquidate the term “Nakba” from the Arab sector’s curriculum.
cornynote: The portraits on the left are of Begin, Lieberman, and Kahane, who were Jewish right wing leaders.
Israel and Palestine deserve better.
(Source: behance.net)
