THE FORWARD – In an example of social activism gone terribly wrong , Spanish activists in full clown makeup — red noses included — disrobed in front of the West Bank separation barrier in Jerusalem to protest the wall’s existence as a divider between Israel and the Palestinian territories.
The group, Pallasos en Rebeldia — Clowns in Rebellion — received mixed reactions (to say the least) with strong criticism from conservative Palestinians calling their protest a disrespectful show of “disgusting solidarity.” Others welcomed the clowns’ support in the hopes that the photos would draw world-wide attention to their plight.
The activists, who held protests earlier in the week in Bethlehem, Ramallah and East Jerusalem, explained their actions with a statement on their Facebook page : “When you stand before this shameful fence, all of humanity is naked. The decision to be photographed as naked clowns was meant to remind us that all of humanity has lost its respect by allowing such barriers to exist. The 21st Century is the time we need to break barriers and not build new ones. We apologize to the Palestinians whose feelings were hurt in this act. This is not an act against Islam; this is our way of denouncing the barrier.”
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I support this activist demonstration on behalf of the Palestinian people.
Is it a male version of Femen? It is one of the most idiotic and degrading ways to show support or dislike of anything. Just because the STUPIDITY is naked, it doesn’t make it more ‘profound’ or ‘prominent’.
I wonder who paid them for this exhibitionism? Uncle Soros ?
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Some how they need to call attention to the whole world who have been silent for more than 7 decades, some times it takes something crazy to wake up people.
I agree with you, Marta. It is an idiotic exhibitionism. Anything, even less offensive than this, that draws more attention to the messenger than the message is worthless or worse.
The objective of solidarity with the Palestinians should be to further their cause of national liberation from the chains of Zionist occupation and oppression. But I am not able to see how the demonstration of naked bodies by some activists, as in this picture, is going to be help a just cause. Instead, all those who support the people of Palestine should expose the naked aggression of Zionists and their violations of human rights of a captive population.
as I thought , they are a part of the NGO Spanish group called: ‘Pallasos en rebeldia’ ,
and we all know WHO is behind all those NGO ‘ s groups.
it is just one of the ways to trivialise the enormous, very serious and painful problem,
and also the way to legitimize all those phony, shamless, insolent , immodest, ‘protests’,
which ,as Adrianna said, attract much more attention to the messengers than to the message, which becomes actually disguised by the cheeky, naked butts thrown in people’s faces.
Are they going to do the same at other walls, erected by other countries, and recently by Hungary?
I support this activist demonstration on behalf of the Palestinian people.
Is it a male version of Femen? It is one of the most idiotic and degrading ways to show support or dislike of anything. Just because the STUPIDITY is naked, it doesn’t make it more ‘profound’ or ‘prominent’.
I wonder who paid them for this exhibitionism? Uncle Soros ?
.
Some how they need to call attention to the whole world who have been silent for more than 7 decades, some times it takes something crazy to wake up people.
I agree with you, Marta. It is an idiotic exhibitionism. Anything, even less offensive than this, that draws more attention to the messenger than the message is worthless or worse.
The objective of solidarity with the Palestinians should be to further their cause of national liberation from the chains of Zionist occupation and oppression. But I am not able to see how the demonstration of naked bodies by some activists, as in this picture, is going to be help a just cause. Instead, all those who support the people of Palestine should expose the naked aggression of Zionists and their violations of human rights of a captive population.
as I thought , they are a part of the NGO Spanish group called: ‘Pallasos en rebeldia’ ,
and we all know WHO is behind all those NGO ‘ s groups.
it is just one of the ways to trivialise the enormous, very serious and painful problem,
and also the way to legitimize all those phony, shamless, insolent , immodest, ‘protests’,
which ,as Adrianna said, attract much more attention to the messengers than to the message, which becomes actually disguised by the cheeky, naked butts thrown in people’s faces.
Are they going to do the same at other walls, erected by other countries, and recently by Hungary?