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.
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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.
  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?
Feel free to right click on the modified images and spread virally.
Read about it:
- Yale’s latest gift to anti-semitism,Abby Wisse Schachter, New York Post, June 7, 2011
- The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) Check out the website while it is still up.
- Anti-Semitism initiative to end, David Burt, Yale Daily News, June 7, 2011
- Anti-Semitism and Man at Yale, Alex Joffe, Jewish Ideas Daily, June 13, 2011
† By the way. What universities have such a programme?
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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In the off-chance someone doesn’t understand the point, try googling Palestine key images.
 Poster Gallery
Israel is NOT an apartheid state
Thanks to Elder of Zion for these images.
Click on thumbnail image for full size.
Palestinian Hypocrisy Week Graphics
For further discussion read: Parody of a Poster
More useful graphics: Israel is NOT an apartheid state
Click on images to full size
 Parody of IAW 2011 Internet ad (368 × 250) |
 Parody of IAW 2011 poster (518 × 800) |
Hi-res poster for print purposes
Right-click Link to download the PDF file, print it and paste it. Be patient – in the interest of graphic quality the file is quite large.
Graphic artists:
Prepare now for Palestinian Hypocrisy Week
There is a poster competition starting for Israel Apartheid Week. We don’t link to Destroy Israel Lobby sites so you’ll have to Google Imaging Apartheid if you want to access the original site.
They do have a point when they say, Street level art work and design has consistently played a critical role within international solidarity movements throughout the world†: from the powerful poster art published by the Black Panthers in the late 1960s; to the striking design work created by artists inspired by the Africa National Congress (ANC) and the global movement against apartheid in South Africa; to poster art created to support the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)†.
Remember the war against Franco?
That’s the kind where each of us belongs.
Though he may have won all the battles,
We had all the good songs (posters).
Lyrics from The Folksong Army by Tom Lehrer
Our suggestions:
- Submit satirical and parody posters to Imagining Apartheid and to us (we’ll publish them) and get their goat. I’m working on a Gazans prefer Israeli products – cheaper prices & better quality poster as you read this. Deadline November 1st, 2010.
- Start working on Palestinian Hypocrisy Week posters to hang next to the IAW posters where ever you see them and get their goat. Submit copies to us and the media. Please email me at david@5mfi.com with any queries.
- Are you able to get to Montreal for a counter exhibition of Israel Advocacy Posters (date to be announced)?
†The Soviet Union called it agitprop. Much of it can be bought on satirical T-shirts, in Arbat Sreet, for a few dollars.
‡ Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbullah, Al Qaeda, Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line?
We have abandoned the three column design for the time being. Using the Atahualpa theme the first text block is grabbed when we post to Facebook. That meant that instead of content the reader caught the Guidelines for Comments (now here).
We loved the Israel flag look and the narrower central column but form must follow function. We are looking for a WordPress theme that is easily customisable by css.
Any WordPress experts want to advise us?
Who remembers the Dating Game?
The game play was simple. On one side you had 3 bachelors answering questions from a girl on the other side of the partition (each not being able to see the other). The girl was given a certain amount of time to ask as many questions as she could to the 3 bachelors.
The pay off was a date with what was always assumed to be a very desirable person. Not even Chuck Barris† thought of the gimmick to demand a huge price for the privilege of a date for some 3rd person. That essentially is what ‘proximity talk’ are all about.
Thanks Yoni for yet another cartoon. If you have graphic talent let’s begin fighting fire with fire and produce Israel Advocacy cartoons. Can draw but lack subject ideas? Get in touch with us and we will suggest some. Ideas but no drawing talent? Same deal!
† Chuck Barris created the Dating Game, the Gong Show and many others. He may also be just a few cents short of a dollar.
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