The ‘Vote Tommy Doherty’ portion of this RNU mural on Northumberland Street (Visual History) has been replaced with a pro-Palestinian message – a clenched fist in the colours of Palestine between the emblems of the RNU and the Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02029 arabic tıocfaidh ár lá our day will come
يومنا قادم
Here are two images of modified Israeli flags, protesting the incursion into Gaza. The first, above is on the Divis tower and shows a tricolour flying next to an Israeli flag with swastikas. The second, below, is from Monday’s protest march outside Belfast City Hall and shows a young girl covering her eyes beneath an Israeli flag covered in red (bloody) hand-prints.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02036 X0251
As part of the protest against Israeli action in Gaza, some – such as the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement – are calling for boycotts of US companies, because of their investment in Israel or because of the US’s support for Israel. Above, an advertising hoarding for Coke has been modified with “Viva Palestine” and “#shareacoke” has become “#killercoke”. Below, “”Boycott Israeli goods” has been written across the bottom of a McDonald’s hoarding at the junction of the Cavehill and Antrim Roads. McDonald’s is #9 in this list in the Christian Science Monitor.
Previously: Boycott Assrealy Goods
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02039 X02037
Banner outside Donegal Celtic’s clubhouse on Suffolk Road, with the flags of Palestine and the Irish Republic.
For more on the Anti-Racism World Cup, see East Meets West.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02034 anti-racism world cup 2014 bígí lınn the green brigade and the wakes
Above is a banner on the scaffolding surrounding Teach Chú Chulaınn/Cuchulainn House/(formerly Churchill House) in the New Lodge, visible from the motorway, as can be seen in the wide shot, below, taken from Clifton Street bridge.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02027 X02028
Carlos Latuff’s cartoon Do Not Disturb – War Criminals Working is reproduced as part of a new mural in the Short Strand – shown in full below. An aproned Benjamin Netanyahu sits in a Gaza trough, filled with the blood of people he butchers with a cleaver in his right hand while gesturing for secrecy with his left. The world watches with some concern, Ban Ki-Moon and the UN look away, and the Arab League is asleep. Barack Obama prevents any intervention with an outstretched arm.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02031 X02032 supports tacaíonn an trá ghearr le gaza palestine flag tricolour
Commentary on the current situation in Gaza, in Clonard Crescent, west Belfast. This has already been removed.
Previously: Where Is The World? | Free Gaza | Freedom In Arabic
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02025
“Oppression breeds resistance”, in the form of Leila Khaled and an IRA gunman, and a clenched fist in the colours of the Palestinian flag. This is a new pro-Gaza mural in McQuillan Street with Irish “Tıocfaıdh ár lá” [our day will come] and Arabic “يومنا قادم” [our day is coming] (and in the shields “Saoırse” and “حرية”[freedom]).
The artist is DD Walker (“Rebel Rebel”), who painted the “Against Established Law” Che Guevara mural last (2013) October which this replaces.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02038 X02026 erin
Another pro-Palestinian piece, sponsored by éırígí, just round the corner from Where Is The World? Israeli ground operations in Gaza yesterday (July 22) entered their third week.
Previously in this location: Stop Sign | Free Stephen Murney
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02021 northumberland street
Gazans flee ahead of smiling soldiers from homes set ablaze by a tank flying the Israeli flag. This new mural on the international wall associates the current Israeli invasion of Gaza (Operation Protective Edge) with the US/South Vietnamese attack on the village of Trang Bang during the Vietnam war by modelling itself on Nick Út’s 1972 Pulitzer prize-winning photograph for the Associated Press of villagers fleeing a napalm bombing (WP). [Authorship is disputed – it might be by Nguyễn Thành Nghệ – see World Press Photo.]
On the ground in front of the mural are tealights that were lit in memorial and solidarity.
Previously: Hands Across The Yard
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02022 immediate expulsion of all israeli diplomats from éire
Extramural Activity 