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How the Watermelon Became a Symbol of Palestinian Solidarity

The use of the watermelon as a Palestinian symbol is not new. It first emerged after the Six-day War in 1967, when Israel seized control of the West Bank and Gaza, and annexed East Jerusalem. At the time, the Israeli government made public displays of the Palestinian flag a criminal offense in Gaza and the West Bank. 

To circumvent the ban, Palestinians began using the watermelon because, when cut open, the fruit bears the national colors of the Palestinian flag—red, black, white, and green.  

The Israeli government didn't just crack down on the flag. Artist Sliman Mansour told The National in 2021 that Israeli officials in 1980 shut down an exhibition at 79 Gallery in Ramallah featuring his work and others, including Nabil Anani and Issam Badrl. “They told us that painting the Palestinian flag was forbidden, but also the colors were forbidden. So Issam said, ‘What if I were to make a flower of red, green, black and white?’, to which the officer replied angrily, ‘It will be confiscated. Even if you paint a watermelon, it will be confiscated,’” Mansour told the outlet.

Israel lifted the ban on the Palestinian flag in 1993, as part of the Oslo Accords, which entailed mutual recognition by Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization and were the first formal agreements to try to resolve the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The flag was accepted as representing the Palestinian Authority, which would administer Gaza and the West Bank.

In the wake of the accords, the New York Times nodded to the role of watermelon as a stand-in symbol during the flag ban. “In the Gaza Strip, where young men were once arrested for carrying sliced watermelons—thus displaying the red, black and green Palestinian colors—soldiers stand by, blasé, as processions march by waving the once-banned flag,” wrote Times journalist John Kifner.

In 2007, just after the Second Intifada, artist Khaled Hourani created The Story of the Watermelon for a book entitled Subjective Atlas of Palestine. In 2013, he isolated one print and named it The Colours of the Palestinian Flag, which has since been seen by people across the globe.

The use of the watermelon as a symbol resurged in 2021, following an Israeli court ruling that Palestinian families based in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem would be evicted from their homes to make way for settlers.

The watermelon symbol today:

In January, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir gave police the power to confiscate Palestinian flags. This was later followed by a June vote on a bill to ban people from displaying the flag at state-funded institutions, including universities. (The bill passed preliminary approval but the government later collapsed.)

In June, Zazim, an Arab-Israeli community organization, launched a campaign to protest against the ensuing arrests and confiscation of flags. Images of watermelons were plastered on to 16 taxis operating in Tel Aviv, with the accompanying text reading, “This is not a Palestinian flag.”

“Our message to the government is clear: we will always find a way to circumvent any absurd ban and we will not stop fighting for freedom of expression and democracy,” said Zazim director Raluca Ganea. 

Amal Saad, a Palestinian from Haifa who worked on the Zazim campaign, told Al-Jazeera they had a clear message: “If you want to stop us, we’ll find another way to express ourselves.”

Words courtesy of BY ARMANI SYED / TIME

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Not enough hype for Bill Cone’s artwork.

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I saw a comment saying that Martin and Chris are the original ADHD and autism duo and that simple comment escalated to this

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Martin stimming will never not make me smile

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More punks 🤎

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Meow meow:3

I love their dynamic!! X3 (STRONGLY PLATONIC)

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Noah's name becomes Scrooge everytime he wear those pajamas (I love this, he's a old man in the body of a teenager so real) this IS cannon for me too

Both of them are never shown in their pajamas so as far as I’m concerned this is canon

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I made a version of how I imagine Heather as a child from Dramarama, since from what I've seen she probably won't appear in this cartoon sadly :(

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meaw meaw

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And that's how they kiss.

BONUS:

Too long without drawing my favorite fools.

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Chorei...... 😭😭

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OH MY FUCKING GOD

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New siblings! New siblings!!

That awkward moment when you accidentally officialize your status as found family via force of habit.

I would have made this a fic, but since writing is something I actually sort of know how to do, that would've taken way too long, and I'm trying to avoid getting sucked back into the wonderful Void of Fanfiction until I've finished one of my original stories. So y'all are getting these scribbles I threw down purely for the sake of getting this scenario out of my head. Love you, bye.

...dangit.

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I don’t trust enough to hope after what happened with Tales of Arcadia, but…

Daniel Spellbound do be giving off those blorbo vibes for me. 🥺

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Daniel Spellbound outfit is just like........

Omg yeah now I remember it's Luz Noceda beta from The Owl House!

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