We don’t think the picture below, of a young man killed in occupied Hebron by Israeli forces and surrounded by illegal settlers, would ever show up in the New York Times. And while you can say that it is too grisly for the paper of record, it has already gotten wide attention from people who care about Israel’s occupation because of the attitude it documents. The photo appeared in the Gulf News with an AFP credit; then we saw it after it appeared on writer Susan Abulhawa’s Facebook wall — “In my original post I wrote ‘visit Israel’ but really… there just are no words,” she explained to us — and scholar Steven Salaita then retweeted the image and wrote:
The Palestinian body finally achieves the approving gaze of the settler:
Here is the Gulf News account of the killing, from Nasouh Nazzal:
occupation forces shot and killed another Palestinian teenager on the same day on Al Shuhada’a Street in Hebron during a peaceful protest, raising the death toll to two in less than four hours.
Hebron sources said that Palestinian teen Farouq Abdul Qader Sedr, 18, was shot by an occupation soldier before the eyes of heads of legal and human rights organisations during the protest, after the occupation forces ordered Palestinians gathering on Al Shuhada’a Street, opposite to the Jewish colony outpost of Beit Hadasa, to move out of the area. The occupation forces claimed that the teen attempted to stab a solider but his attempt was foiled and he was killed. “A sheer lie witnessed by hundreds of eye witnesses and documented,” said the sources.
Steven Salaita was fired by the University of Illinois last summer because of a series of savage tweets he posted during the Gaza slaughter. He is teaching at the American University of Beirut and has lately published a book on his experience, Uncivil Rites — and he continues to tweet.
We mean no disrespect to the victim, Farouq Abdul Qader Sedr. We are aware that often the press does observe privacy for people in wealthy countries and not in poor ones, but this picture says too much to be omitted.
As I said when I posted a link to this disgusting and honest photo this morning: “It speaks volumes”.
This is Israel.
This is Zionism.
This is JSIL.
Thanks for the exposure.
@- just. Was the photo taken before or after the fat thug/slug with the Kippah and matching Kalashnikov lay down beside the slain Palestinian for a selfie. Just wondering.
The baby faced young boys and girls were writing approvingly on the rockets and on the missiles that drained on Lebanon and Gaza in 2006
. Collections of those pictures archived by the group who visually docu,enter the human costs of that wars also include the joyous Israeli children celebrating those destructions.
Hate really does destroy the souls .
Pity they didn’t show the picture in the paper of BEFORE israHELLis PLANTED the knife!!!
https://www.facebook.com/TheEyeOfPalestineDK/photos/a.1028689440487771.1073741829.967459553277427/1029485237074858/?type=3
The sight of settlers so casually observing (one settler even photographing) the dead body of the Palestinian teenager Farouq Abdul Qader Sedr contrasts sharply with the scene that would have taken place, had it been an Israeli instead of a Palestinian who’d been killed. Then a photograph, had one been taken, would have revealed visibly anguished Israelis mourning the loss of one of their own. Such indifference to the murder of an oppressed other is characteristic of societies in which a self-designated “superior” people takes control of, demonizes and dehumanizes what they consider to be an “inferior” people. Invariably this occurs in colonial situations, whereby an outside power (European in most cases) invades and conquers an indigenous people, as took place in what became known as the Americas, and has been going on for over a century in Palestine. Here the colonizers happen to be European Jews, with the Palestinians its indigenous people. Resistance by the indigenous people is the inevitable consequence of settler colonization, with liberation its ultimate outcome.