William Parry is a London-based freelance journalist and photographer who has published in the Guardian, the Independent and elsewhere. He is the author of Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine (Pluto, 2010).
The wall stands as a dreadful symbol of oppression. The spirit of
resistance may be strong but Palestinians need international
support. I hope this book makes that more likely.
*Ken Loach*
This book will help eventually pull down the wall.
*Damon Albarn*
A singular achievement – both a stunning photographic essay of how
Israel's concrete wall has cut into Palestinian land and strangled
whole communities and a powerful visual record of how local and
international graffiti artists have battered it with their only
weapons, paint and spray cans.
*Joe Sacco, Political cartoonist*
This is a remarkable and deeply human book documenting a vast and
ultimately self-defeating act of injustice. It records a growing
series of creative and flexible responses to that injustice – an
international unity of intent which steps outside the sterile and
appalling logic of asymmetric warfare. It is an angry, funny,
determined reminder that “Nothing Lasts Forever.
*A L Kennedy, writer and comedian*
Documents Israel's monstrous wall both as a brute instrument of
dispossession and as a bearer of resistance. The wall steals
Palestinian land and threatens the viability of the lives lived in
its shadow and it blooms with messages of solidarity from every
corner of the earth. This is the largest protest banner the world
has ever known. ...An outstanding example of cultural
resistance.
*Ahdaf Soueif*
A marvellous expose of Palestinian 'Wall Art', evocative and
compelling. Those who admired Belfast's resistance wall paintings
will revel in this Palestinian version.
*Ghada Karmi, Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic
Studies, University of Exeter, and author of Married to Another
Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine*
This book is very beautiful and very ugly. The Wall is very ugly,
much of the art on it is very beautiful. This book helps to expose
the ugly tyranny of oppression. There is beauty in the resistance
of the Palestinian people. The annexation of East Jerusalem and the
West Bank is ugly. That many Israelis are joining the resistance
against their own government's policies is brave and beautiful. The
ugliness of the Wall outweighs the beauty of the rest. This book
seeks to redress the balance.
*Roger Waters*
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