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Inside Vancouver Library’s Ban on Pro-Palestinian Symbols (thetyee.ca)
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[–] asterism@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Well shit. Guess we’re boycotting the VPL now

[–] azi@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They told us that painting the Palestinian flag was forbidden, but also the colours 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.’

Sliman Mansour recalling the shutdown of his, Nabil Anani's, and Issam Badr's art exhibition in Ramallah in 1980