Solidarity With Palestine

Carpenter | 24.12.2010 11:38 | Palestine

Deck London's Walls with Bethlehem's Calls

Merry Christmas world from Bethleham Ghetto

National Portrait Gallery

The reality of Bethlehem to London’s walls.

Zayed, a 10-year-old in Bethlehem who dreams of travelling around the world when he can get a passport, said:

The wall is an ugly prison. I can see it from my home. I want to tell people of the world that Palestinians want peace and justice. We want to be free like everybody else.”

Parry’s initiative was facilitated by a local Palestinian artist known by the tag name ‘Trash’, who in December 2007 helped Banksy and London-based Pictures on Walls to carry out their Santa’s Ghetto project in Bethlehem.

Among the photos being projected is one of the inhuman image of the thousands of Palestinian workers who daily queue in narrow metal corridors alongside the wall, to work in Israel. One of the labourers, named Mohammed Issa, said:

What do you make of this? It’s fu***ed up, isn’t it. If Jesus had to do this every day, he’d become an atheist.”