The conservative National Post of Oh Canada reported on the web project that lets outsiders order graffiti on Israel’s “terrorist-repelling clothes-line” — as Fadi calls it.
It is an ingenious gag that treats the wall with the ironic disdain it deserves. It has an expressly political message, as its FAQs are almost as nicely radical as our’s.
The taggers at www.sendamessage.nl are members of the Palestinian Peace and Freedom Youth Forum, which set up the scheme in collaboration with a Dutch Christian organization.
They charge $40 for a picture. For a KABOBpal, such as yourself, we’ll send Mohammad down to the wall with a magic marker and a digital camera for you for merely $25. Act now and we’ll throw in not one, but two dates with the KABOBer of your choice.
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Will,
Have you looked into/considered the potential legal ramifications for donating? The rules on charitable contributions in general and with designated countries/entities are very stirct as you probably know and I wouldn’t be suprised if some right wing dickhead tried to chill such donating acitivity by going after someone for “knowingly and willfully…trying to help a brother out…”
Posted by Yasser | February 27, 2009, 9:28 amIt’s not a donation, it’s a photography and/or equipment fee. Per hour charge, transportation, camera, computer, internet connection (or 10 mins of cafe fees)… very expensive.
Posted by American Muslim Girl | February 27, 2009, 9:44 amAMG,
I misunderstood…but the questions are still relevant. The various anti-terrorist legislation etc., could still criminalize this type of transaction: money going to a Palestinian group…I just thought I’d raise the issue.
Posted by Yasser | February 27, 2009, 9:56 amI have not. As long as their group is not on the State Department terror list, you will be fine, or closely connected to such one.
And I am willing to bet they are not on the list.
There is also a list of approved NGOs to donate to. It’s about 400 pages long though.
Or just donate to friends of the IDF and get a tax write-off.
Posted by Will | February 27, 2009, 4:29 pmA couple years ago Congress wrote off $30 mil to the PA, a large chunk of which went to Israel to ‘improve the checkpoints’.
I’m sure this can fall under the same category.
And for real, 25 bucks and I’ll draw you a smiley face too.
Posted by Mohammad | February 27, 2009, 4:47 pmThis is an absolutely disgusting project.
As someone in a list who forwarded this said:
its disgusting…palestinians privatizing an object of their own oppression for profit…aljazeera english did a story on it a while back actually, but were similarly uncritical of it. The piece was actually filed by Ayman Moheidin, their English language correspondent, who at the end of the report signs off showing the spray painting of “al jazeera” on the wall…. its also worth noting, that its not like this is fancy grafitti – its nothing more than a guy with a spray can writing in poor handwriting, whatever you send them via email, and then they take a picture of it and email the image back. quick and easy 30Euro. the way the article is written they make it sound like these are artists who are part of this underground hip scene of great taggers…baloney. Finally – its totally unaccountable…no one knows what the hell the money
goes for…how easy it is to write “to support grassroots social and cultural projects in the West Bank”…shame…
Posted by Anonymous | February 27, 2009, 7:50 pmI think this post and the post by Diana Buttu supporting ‘Waltz with Bashir’ rank up there in their display of the self-absorption and reactionary political thinking that sees all forms of ‘expression’ as somehow a form of resistance. it is not. what is worse, many have now substituted culture as ‘the’ form of resistance. and you are supposed to be the new generation of progressive “professional” (sic)palestinians who will usher in palestine’s liberation.
fuck you people. you will never free palestine.
Posted by Anonymous | February 27, 2009, 7:59 pmhow the hell are we advocating this project?
Posted by Mohammad | February 27, 2009, 8:58 pmyou drinking again ibish? pathetic.
Posted by Anonymous | February 27, 2009, 9:55 pmA world without Palestinians would be a world without terror.
God Bless the State of Israel
God Bless America
Posted by pat1425 | February 27, 2009, 10:30 pmyalla, yalla..I want the kabob $25 special…and 2 dates? where can we see pics of all the posters??
Posted by alfannaan | February 28, 2009, 12:00 amyou think if i send them 25 bux they’ll write “built with cement provided by Ahmed Qurie” ?
Posted by Anonymous | February 28, 2009, 6:58 amI might even get him to pose by the pic for you anon
Posted by Mohammad | February 28, 2009, 6:59 amOK
A group figure out a way to make money by registering a star under your name, while another by writing your "thoughts" on a "controversial" Wall, like any business they use the "advertisement" needed to bring more customers
That's an Art
One Artist choose not to recycle or throw his own trash for a year; then put all these empty cans, stumps, used blades …etc in a museum & attract the public, the media, the critics ..for a fee
A collection of random (thoughts, slogans, opinions ..etc) on such a Wall "the quality in drawing the letters is not important" IS an ART (later to view, study, criticize …etc)…more dimensional than a star registry ?!
Posted by riskability | February 28, 2009, 9:53 amThis is some genius shit. No one is frontin like this is part of the hip hop movement.
The only problem is you have to be really careful when you send money to anything Palestinian related.
Someone gotta look more into that aspect.
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