For more information on this brilliant English graffiti artist (see the two posts below), check out the Guardian’s profile and his latest work, a visit to the Palestinian occupied territories. He says: “The Israeli government is building a wall surrounding the occupied Palestinian territories. It stands three times the height of the Berlin Wall and…
My following article recently appeared on Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein writes from East Jerusalem: “Signs of Hope Emerge in the West Bank” was a headline in the New York Times on 16 July. On the same day, the London Guardian headlined a similar story, “Allure of normal life triumphs in West Bank ‘ghost town‘”. Both pieces…
British artist Banksy recently visited Bethlehem and left his mark on the Holy Land:
Banksy, The Guardian, March 24: …Australia is probably still the only country in the world to have elevated a graffiti writer to the status of national public hero. Arthur Stace was an alcoholic from the slums of Sydney who found God while listening to a Baptist preacher in a hostel in the 1940s and took…
