The Guardian cartoonist Ella Baron on AI (artificial intelligence) and the drought

Guardian Opinion 

cartoon 

AI (artificial intelligence)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/aug/23/ella-baron-on-ai-and-the-drought-cartoon 

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This cartoon is 16 years old. And it remains relevant today, unfortunately

"Statehood cannot be declared in press releases while genocide burns Gaza and land is stolen daily in the West Bank. Recognition of Palestine is hollow if it ignores the uprooting of people and the violence that became a daily reality. Better to first recognize the atrocities and confront injustice than to offer symbolic statehood to a people whose very existence is already rooted in their land yet their land, and their lives are under attack." Sliman Mansour of Palestine

                 A caricature that was published in Al Fajr English language newspaper in the 1990’s.

sliman.mansour

Statehood cannot be declared in press releases while genocide burns Gaza and land is stolen daily in the West Bank. Recognition of Palestine is hollow if it ignores the uprooting of people and the violence that became a daily reality. Better to first recognize the atrocities and confront injustice than to offer symbolic statehood to a people whose very existence is already rooted in their land yet their land, and their lives are under attack.

Hiroshima 1945- Gaza 2025

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@Mondoweiss

Aerial photos from Gaza this past week reveal the horrific scale of destruction Israel has inflicted on the 25-mile strip. The devastation is reminiscent of Hiroshima. Israel’s war crimes continue to mount by the day. Cartoon by @LatuffCartoons

USA/Israeli Harassment Campaigns seek silence support for Human Rights, the Rule of Fair and Just Laws, Real Democracy, Palestine... and the list will not stop there: Your turn is coming.

What Americans think the Israel-Palestine 'conflict' is VS What it really is ...

2024 Snoopy & Handala & the Statue of Liberty

 

West Bank Wall graffiti art in Bethlehem: Handala and Liberty as "Pietà"

Symbolism

Handala's age – ten years old – represents Naji al-Ali's age in 1948 when he was forced to leave Palestine and would not grow up until he could return to his homeland:^[6] Al-Ali wrote that:

Handala was born 10 years old and he will always be 10 years old. It was at that age that I left my homeland. When Handala returns, he will still be 10 years old, and then he will start growing up.

His posture, with his turned back and clasped hands, symbolises the character's "rejection at a time when solutions are presented to us the American way" and as "a symbol of rejection of all the present negative tides in our region."^[4] His ragged clothes and standing barefoot symbolise his allegiance to the poor.^[4] Al-Ali described Handala as "the symbol of a just cause":

He was the arrow of the compass, pointing steadily towards Palestine. Not just Palestine in geographical terms, but Palestine in its humanitarian sense—the symbol of a just cause   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handala

All the way back to 1948...

 

ARMS

 

Child of Handala - a modern interpretation of the 21st-century generation of Palestinian Nakba survivors.

CHILD OF HANDALA

Child of Handala

Passion Makes Perfect

Child of Handala is a modern interpretation of the 21st-century generation of Palestinian Nakba survivors.
A re-ignition of the immortal symbol "Handala". A unique intellectual lens into the world's current events.

 https://www.childofhandala.blog/

https://twitter.com/ChildofHandala 

https://www.facebook.com/Child.of.Handala/ 

https://www.instagram.com/child.of.handala/

https://www.pinterest.com/childofhandala/child-of-handala/

 

 

 

Injustice

 

Demonstrations

 Pro Palestinians demonstrators chanted "Free Palestine"

... Pro Israeli demonstrators chanted "No Ceasefire"

My brush is my only weapon. -Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali, creator of #Handala

My brush is my only weapon. -Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali 1938-1987, creator of #Handala

Handala, also known as Handhala (Arabic: حنظلة), is the most famous of Al-Ali's characters. He is depicted as a ten-year-old boy, and appeared for the first time in Al-Siyasa in Kuwait in 1969. The figure turned his back to the viewer from the year 1973, and clasped his hands behind his back. The artist explained that the ten-year-old represented his age when forced to leave Palestine and would not grow up until he could return to his homeland; his turned back and clasped hands symbolised the character's rejection of "outside solutions". 

Handala wears ragged clothes and is barefoot, symbolising his allegiance to the poor. In later cartoons, he is actively participating in the action depicted not merely observing it. The artist vows that his figure, Handala will "reveal his face to the readers again only when Palestinian refugees return to their homeland".

"For much of his working life, al-Ali insisted that it was essential to retain hope... "  Pens and swords Michel Faber praises the work of a visionary Palestinian cartoonist

Naji al-Ali (1 January 2009). A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali. Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-84467-365-0.

BBC ON THIS DAY webpage on Mr Al-Ali's assassination.

Handala

Loving Watermelons for Palestine

artist unknown

 

artist unknown

 

 

 

Watermelon on plate painting by Beesan Arafat

Photo of Protest for Palestine

Modern Holocaust 2023

Palestine Paper Dolls

Palestine Watermelon Flag Colors

Cartoon that appeared with a letter to the American Jewish community signed by academics and other public figures from Israel/Palestine and abroad calling on U.S. Jews to address the “elephant in the room”: Israeli apartheid.

Cartoon that appeared with letter signed by 750 academics and other public figures from Israel/Palestine and abroad, calling on U.S. Jews to address the “elephant in the room”: Israeli apartheid. The letter calls on U.S. Jews “to embrace equality for Jews and Palestinians” inside Israel and in the occupied territories.

"American Jews have long been at the forefront of social justice causes, from racial equality to abortion rights, but have paid insufficient attention to the elephant in the room: Israel’s long-standing occupation that, we repeat, has yielded a regime of apartheid. As Israel has grown more right-wing and come under the spell of the current government’s messianic, homophobic, and misogynistic agenda, young American Jews have grown more and more alienated from it. Meanwhile, American Jewish billionaire funders help support the Israeli far right."   The Elephant in the Room

Apartheid

noun

1. An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
   
2. A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups.
3. The condition of being separated from others; segregation.

Apartheid is an Afrikaans^[19] word meaning "separateness", or "the state of being apart", literally "apart-hood" (from the Afrikaans suffix -heid).^[20][21] Its first recorded use was in 1929.^[9]

House of Palestine in Balboa Park, San Diego, California

My dear friend Amal Atieh Jubran at The Palestine House

Handala- the barefoot refugee whose face is always turned away from us, as he gazes out on the tragedy of the ongoing Nakba as the First and Forever People of Historic Palestine continue to be cruelly persecuted, impoverished and displaced by Zionist forces.  Handala's impact has grown in the decades after the Palestinian artist Naji al-Ali's 1987 assassination.  Today the character remains widely popular as a representative of the displaced Palestinian people.

Jewish people are AWESOME! Genocidal apartheid regimes that routinely slaughter journalists & kids are NOT AWESOME!

 

CONNECT THE DOTS: 1917 ... 1948 ... 2023

RACISM: 1917 "Jerusalem Is Rescued By British After 673 Years Of Moslem Rule"

 

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights "Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."

The Beginning of Forced Displacement of Palestinians

The Nakba
During 1947 and 1948, Israel systematically demolished 531 Palestinian villages inside the area that became Israel. More than 200 of these villages were destroyed, and between 250,000 and 350,000 people were displaced before May 1948 when the first Arab-Israeli war officially began.

A 67-year-old Palestinian man in the Dehaishe refugee camp displays the original key and title deeds to the home his family abandoned when they fled their village in the 1948 war in Israel

1948 UN Resolution 194: The United Nations General Assembly adopts resolution 194 (III), resolving that “refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.”  ....

Greenwashing refers to when a state or organization appeals to environmentalism in order to deflect attention from its harmful practices. Robbing The Refugees   

 

Since 1948, thanks to Zionism

 

 

Foreign Policy: TEST YOUR STUPIDITY ... Israel 101