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"Visit Palestine" Images

11/13/2013

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"Visit Palestine" Images

Collected by Alloul Jaafar, published November 11th, 2013.

"Visit Palestine" is a Palestinian awareness campaign that uses
historical ‘tourism’ images of the Jewish Agency to assert the
existence of Palestine and the anti-colonial struggle of its people.
Up until this very day, expansionist politicians inside of Israel keep
asserting that no Palestine has ever existed and that no Palestine
exists now. As a grassroots initiative, the "Visit Palestine" campaign
defies such ongoing colonial discourse by using images that were
paradoxically initially designed by Western-educated Zionists
themselves (Franz Kraus, 1936). Thus alerting people around the world
–once more, often tourists- in easy-to-understand mediums, that
Palestine has a historical dimension and that its inhabitants are
still seeking emancipation and civic entitlements therein. The “Visit
Palestine” campaign is today often overlooked in ‘grand’ conflict
analysis, but precisely therefore it is significant, as it highlights
not only the understated but ongoing political reassertion of
Palestinian civil society after the Second Intifada, but it also
alerts one of the fact that in today’s world socio-political
conscience is more and more shaped by subtle visual imagery than mere
text. For an in-depth examination of the movement,
read Alloul Jaafar's Visit Palestine.
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