Free Palestine
Title: Free Palestine (Palestinian Poppy) I
Subject: Gaza, Rafah, Palestine, and Israeli Apartheid and Genocide
Created: 2024
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
Articles
“The poppy has long featured in Palestinian art and in the spring, the flower blankets fields in the region with its bright red colour.
Featuring all four colours that make up the Palestinian flag, the poppy has come to symbolise resistance and indigenous Palestinian heritage; the rich red also represents the blood shed by those who have fought for the Palestinian nation.
“The poppy symbolises the relationship of exchange and reciprocity between the Palestinians’ life and the land of Palestine, where the Palestinans’ bodies give life to the land of Palestine,” wrote Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA.
Different regions of Palestine have adopted their own names for the flower; in the north, it is called Hannoun, Arabic for “passionate”, and in the south, shakik, meaning “brother”.”
– Middle East Eye, Five national flowers from the Middle East and the symbolism they hold
“This is apartheid.
Amnesty International’s new investigation shows that Israel imposes a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians across all areas under its control: in Israel and the OPT, and against Palestinian refugees, in order to benefit Jewish Israelis. This amounts to apartheid as prohibited in international law.
Laws, policies and practices which are intended to maintain a cruel system of control over Palestinians, have left them fragmented geographically and politically, frequently impoverished, and in a constant state of fear and insecurity.”
– Amnesty International, Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians
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Free Palestine
Free Palestine is a series of artworks by Ihanktonwan Dakota artist David Bernie that addresses the policy of Genocide against the Palestinian community.
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This work by David Bernie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You may download, share, and post the images under the condition that the works are attributed to the artist.
