A lot of the British commentariat don’t mention Gaza because they think that the maintenance of the status quo sometimes involves the ugly but necessary business of killing civilians. They do hope it will end soon, so they can get back to moral grandstanding about other matters.
Fun afternoon prepping for a Christmas Card printing workshop- linocuts hand carved by @annatheartist and Isabella and inspired by WW1 artist and nurse Veronica Nisbet.
These are two large unique screen prints I did in 2019, of the huge changes and new developments in Blackhorse Road area -did you know there were fireworks factories in Blackhorse Lane?
Blackhorse Road
Image size 58x28.5cm
Paper size 65.5x36
£80 each or £140 for both
Perhaps the thinking behind bringing Baron Cameron bk is that an old Etonian member of the Bullingdon Club connected with working class Northern voters in 2019? High risk strategy.
At a time of extreme conflict around the world vital we can hold the government accountable for what they are doing to achieve peace. We now have a Foreign Secretary no MPs can question. Constitutional issue of who will have access and democratic accountability must be addressed.
Scientists have revived a plant from the Pleistocene epoch. This plant is 32 thousand years old! Yes, it is the oldest plant ever to be "resurrected" and was grown from 32,000-year-old seeds, beating the previous record by some 30,000 years.
Attenborough Fans
I am clearing out my drawers to make space for new work!
I have one of my large green foxes printed in 2018 left to sell. Please dm for more info.
‘Wetlands Fox’
Screenprint
£150 plus P&P
50.5x68.5cm
"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.
I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.
It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!
So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.
And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."
@snowleopardess Wheres this all going end up , is anyone going to pay forctgeir callous disregard for anyone ...what is the bottom line a few heads rolling ? They'll just get turn round and another job will they be locked up I doubt it I humane l8ad of shui4es