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21 February 2012

Nothing we want or use

A poster from the BDS is making the rounds (hat tip Jews News). It essentially lists major brands with Israel connections†, such as CNN, Coca Cola, IBM, Calvin Klein, MacDonalds. It is difficult to understand what BDS hopes to gain by news organisations boycotting Israel, even those like the BBC who do it from a distinctly anti Israel point-of-view,  but logic and a firm grasp of reality is not known as BDS characteristics.

Still, it occurred to me that a counter poster listing Palestinian products to boycott is in order. That posed a problem. Firstly, there is very little that comes out of Palestine that is available to boycott. Secondly, most if not all the companies to be boycotted also do business with the Palestinians so a boycott would rebound on the people BDS imagines they are helping. Finally, Israel is the largest export destination for Palestinian goods (about 85%!).

To be consistent BDS should boycott Palestine. Hence the 1+1 poster. As with everything I produce, please share freely.

Boycott Israel - boycott PalestineClick for hi-res PDF

About the parody

I am still a little uncertain about the stone throwing Palestinian youth. There are several reasons for my hesitation. The Palestinian David vs. the Israel Goliath is a standard meme coming out of the Destroy Israel Lobby. It serves to hide the active participation of Arab and Muslim states with their conventional armies and unlimited treasuries from 1948 onwards. It also reinforces the Palestinian as victim pathology as if there are weight classes in war. On the other hand introducing him makes one think, which country do I, as a middle-class ‘European/American’, identify with – one that flies planes and uses major brands as I do, OR the masked hooligans with slings  who produce nothing but bloodshed.

Normally, when I produce a parody I make ‘subtle’ changes to the wording or the images that the viewer may have to look closely at the original to notice. Here I left the original alone. The partner image, hopefully, says enough.

Palestine: Nothing we want or use

Interesting reading: Burger Boycott, Snopes.com, 5 Jan 2008


† I can’t vouch for how close the connections are for most of the brands. Apparently selling in Israel is enough.

At the Hack

5 December 2011

The Geeks get it done

The best photographs from the Like for Israel: Hackathon

   
       
       
       

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Or vetum, yum yum

13 June 2011

When I first checked the Yale Coat of Arms I realised the Hebrew isn’t exactly correct (original for comparison underneath). It should be Urim veTamim (אורים ותמים) usually translated as Light and Truth but I suspect the original graphic artist knew as much Hebrew as I know Chinese and hyphenated for graphic effect leading even native Hebrew speakers to read the logo as the nonsense Urim vetum yum yum (אור ותמ ים ים). Mea culpa. As a graphic artist I’ve been there.

After Yale University closed the unique to the US Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism programme† apparently because investigating Jew Hatred from the extreme Right or history is OK but investigating it from the perspective of Left and Muslim antisemitism is a no-no. So I realised that having even dubious Hebrew on the Yale coat of arms is offensive to anyone who believes that universities should really be in the business of spreading light and truth.

My task was clear – Yale University urgently requires new images. Spread them widely.

As Hebrew is clearly inappropriate I have replaced it with Arabic. The text on the book now reads Stupid Infidel. The word Kaffir in Arabic is considered offensive so I chose it in preference to the more objective Dhimmi, meaning a Jew or Christian under the Islamic control. Perhaps Yale doesn’t realise the contempt the same Muslims who campaigned  to close the programme feel for Christians and the West. The Latin motto now reads, Forget Truth.

Yale clearly deserves the not-so-coveted, red clown nose. The once proud Bulldog mascot is now a camel with a red nose, like Rudolph leading the Yalies … who knows where?

Yale Coat of Arms

Stupid infidel - forget truth

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Yale Bulldogs

Feel free to right click on the modified images and spread virally.

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† By the way. What universities have such a programme?

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VideosLet them return?

Two must-see videos.

When I’m asked why Israel doesn’t let the Palestinian refugees return to their homes I usually give a long and perhaps boring lecture on what that means. Thanks to the excellent work from MEMRI I may just play these videos instead.

I suppose no one asked these two if criticism of Israel doesn’t make you an antisemite?

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Some choice quotes from the transcript:
Hamas MP and Cleric Yunis Al-Astal: The [Jews] are brought in droves to Palestine so that the Palestinians – and the Islamic nation behind them – will have the honor of annihilating the evil of this gang. Al-Astal wants a Caliphate with its capital in Jerusalem. Won’t Mecca feel a little left-out?
Sara Muhammad ‘Awwadh Jaber 92-year-old-’refugee’ from Hebron: Allah willing, you will bury [Israel], and massacre the Jews with your own hands. Allah willing, you will massacre them like we massacred them in Hebron. I may never help an old woman across the street again!

I’ve put the word ‘refugee’ in quotes, not to point out that Palestinians, uniquely among refugees, pass that status to all descendants but to note that if she was living in Hebron and still living in Hebron, she didn’t lose her home and therefore isn’t a ‘refugee’ by the UNRWA definition. I wonder how she experienced the entire Nakba.

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Happy Nakba Day!

There’s a theory that Israel advocates should always be the nice guys, preaching brotherhood, in opposition to the Israel haters preaching blood. Sometimes I feel we have given the battle of images away without firing a shot.

The following graphic doesn’t show the least bit of empathy. I’m still not sure, at least for certain target audiences, that isn’t the right approach.

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Tell them we changed the locks!


In the off-chance someone doesn’t understand the point, try googling Palestine key images.

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Graphic Advocates iconFace of a Terrorist

The first fictional movie ever to be shown at the UN just had to be anti Israel propaganda. Surprise, surprise.

As always, excellent work by Elder of Ziyon who produced these parodies. Share them freely.

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Face of a Terrorist Dalal Mughrabi Face of a terrorist Ahlam Tamimi Face of a Terrorist Wafa Idris Face of a Terrorist Leila Khaled
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That’s immoral ~ that’s Apartheid

That’s Apartheid lyrics

(sung to the tune of That’s Amore by Dean Martin 1953 (music: Harry Warren, words: Jack Brooks).

When they scream of your plight,
But they give you no rights,
That’s apartheid 

When from jobs they are banned,
Those who claim they lost land,
That’s apartheid

When all over the news,
Reports just condemn Jews,
That’s apartheid

When a woman’s stuck home,
‘Cause she can’t walk alone,
That’s apartheid

When all girls have big cuts,
Where a man has his nuts,
That’s apartheid

When they want Jews to die,
And there’s no reason why,
That’s apartheid

Call ‘em refugees,
Never to be free,
Thought of less  than fleas,
Under the Arabs

From Gaza Jews are shelled,
Jews aren’t allowed to build,
Or the seller will be killed,
In Samaria 

When it’s not even news,
Kids are trained to kill Jews,
That’s apartheid

When you kill apostates,
And build nothing but hate,
That’s apartheid

Christians have to flee,
Or live in misery,
Yearning to breathe free,
Under Islam

But that’s nothing new,
Both for Christians and for Jews,
Who’s left are so few,
Under Islam

When heaven’s missing until,
Some non-Muslims are killed,
That’s apartheid

Parody by Harry Onickel 2011. Picture from soon to be published YouTube video.

Dean Martin ‘That’s amore’ (midi)

"When it's not even news, kids killing Jews, that's Apartheid"

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Palestinian Hypocrisy Week

Israel is NOT an apartheid state

Thanks to Elder of Zion for these images.

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Walid Badir Reda Mansour Salim Joubran Mira Awad
Rana Raslan Majalli Wahabi Ethiopian immigrants
Jews and Arabs shopping together Omar Barghouti