How To See Palestine: An ABC of OccupationMain MenuWhat is the ABC of Occupation?The sight of occupationThe AlphabetA-Z through PalestineThemesPhoto galleriesThe PhotographsNicholas Mirzoefff315c7b2aa506ef7a94489d0482ffdd6247a10ce
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12016-07-17T13:18:25-07:00Nicholas Mirzoefff315c7b2aa506ef7a94489d0482ffdd6247a10ce1561My camera-to-camera encounter with a settler on Shahuda Street, Hebron, May 27, 2016plain2016-07-17T13:18:25-07:00Hebronright to lookPalestinecountervisualityNick MirzoeffVimeo175143384video2016-07-17T16:12:25Nicholas Mirzoefff315c7b2aa506ef7a94489d0482ffdd6247a10ce
1media/Shuhuda Street.jpg2016-07-17T09:42:10-07:00C is for City5The front-line of the occupation: Hebronimage_header2016-07-17T13:20:16-07:00Cities are the testing ground for what is now in formation. Worldwide, most people now live in cities, which have become the default global location. Cities have also been, since the time of Napoleon, the hardest place for counterinsurgency operations. The Israeli regime is trying to change that.
Hebron, a notionally Palestinian city, has become the front line of settler colonialism in Palestine. The settlers are expanding, street by street, using their mix of the carceral state, religion and military force. To visit Shuhada Street, formerly a shopping hub of the Palestinian neighborhood, you have to pass through a forbidding checkpoint. The street is closed, all Palestinian shops barred and sealed. Settlers and soldiers patrol to make sure you know who’s in charge.
Although the street has been closed for years, it was nonetheless disturbing to see Stars of David painted on the closed doors, as if in active forgetfulness of those other times and places where such Stars were painted on Jewish shops to different ends. More disturbing yet was the thought that perhaps the ends were not that different after all.
At that moment, a settler started to film us from the other side of the street. Losing my temper, I walked towards him, holding my phone so as to . He retreated, only to return with a soldier a few moments later. Nothing was said but the point was made: we were photographing on their suffrance. We left in short order
