Here’s a piece in the LA Weekly about a mural on the side of a liberal Zionist organization’s building being defaced, first with the graffiti, Free Palestine, later with the graffiti, Fuck Palestine. This is a good lead, by Dennis Romero:
The Israeli – Palestinian conflict has largely remained a distant battle removed from our everyday lives.
But the seemingly intractable strife this week came to Los Angeles’ Westside in a small but declarative way.
I like this sentence in particular:
Workmen’s Circle [the Jewish organization] has supported a so-called two-state solution that would give Palestine statehood alongside Israel, a stance that’s held by the Obama administration and even Israel itself (insincerely so, according to some critics).
And if you read the article, an official of the Workmen’s Circle is defensive about the group’s support for that so-called two-state solution, but how Free Palestine means an end to Israel.
The LA Jewish Journal says the original mural “includes a menorah, Israelites wandering in the desert, a young girl waving Israeli and American flags, and more.” And the LA Weekly says it contains the Hebrew biblical quote, “Justice justice shalt thou pursue.” The building is the Workmen’s Circle, originally a socialist organization in Jewish life.
Thanks to Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath.
An end to Israel means an end of the Jewish majority – which means an end of Jewish privilege over non-Jews.
‘Justice, justice shalt thou pursue’ – indeed.
Unless of course, these catchy Jewish phrases are meant for Jews only (or Sudanese/Darfur refugee/etc. ie, people whose conflicts do not reflect poorly on Jewish identity in some way or undermine Zionism).
The proposed Jewish State had 45% Palestinians. Non-Jews.
The Jewish terrorists and pre-State Israeli army had ethnically cleansed 200,000-ish Palestinians prior to the declaration of Israeli statehood.
So in 2014, these Zionists never believed in these catchphrases that promote justice.
In 1948, they didn’t believe in them either.
The building DESERVES to be defaced. Whoever writes ‘F**K’ in place of ‘Free’ is making the defacement worse (which is a good thing and symbolizes the cultism and fanatical nature of Jewish nationalism).
The mural contains the Hebrew biblical quote, “Justice justice shalt thou pursue.”
“There’s a certain amount of irony,” Adler-Peckerar, executive director of a group, Yiddishkayt, that collaborates often with Workmen’s Circle, told us, explaining himself: “The Workmen’s Circle has specifically been advocating for progress and fairness and justice in the world. Painting all organizations associated with Jews with one particular brush shows a real lack of cultural knowledge.”
Irony indeed. All that original brush painted was “Free Palestine!!” Obviously it was an appeal by the graffiti artist to the mural’s Hebrew bible’s admonishment to pursue Justice, Justice.
How is that ironical? How does it show “a real lack of cultural knowledge”?
The only irony lies in Adler-Peckerar’s quoted comments, taken together. And of course, there’s nothing ironical at all about the counter graffiti: “Fuck Palestine.”
this is telling:
what he is saying is that he agrees with the message of the graffiti but when he says it that’s good but the intent of the other is (“probably”) not. but he doesn’t know that. whereas there is only one way to interpret ‘fuck palestine’.
the 4 exclamations marks at the end “FREE PALESTINE!!!!” belies a certain enthusiastic urgency to the message. if Workmen’s Circle is truly for a 2ss they could just as easily view the graffiti as ‘hurry up already and get the show on the road’.
“eliminate Israel completely” speaks to WC’s fears. it tells us much more about the director Eric Gordon then it tells us about the intent of the graffiti artist.
FREE PALESTINE means, precisely, “O Pharaoh, let my people go!” (or, perhaps, “O Pharaoh, let another people people go!”. That’s what it means. End the slavery and end the misery that Israel today enforces. And if anyone thinks it means the elimination of Israel, then they are nuts. As to what the GRAFFITIST had in mind, it is anybody’s guess, but no-one can know.
As to another thread above, does anybody know how many Jews lived in Palestine in 1947 with permission to be there? Was it more or less than the 750,000 Palestinians (the usually quoted number) who were sent into exile in the 1948 war?
Deuteronomy 16:20, which the King James version makes ‘That which is altogether just shalt thou follow’ is rather two-edged in this context, since the reward for absolute justice among the Israelites is that they may ‘live and inherit the land’. The Greek version makes it ‘enter and divide by lot’, very much after the manner of conquerors.