The Story of the Watermelon, Khaled Hourani, 2007 (followed by Palestinian Flag, also by Khaled Hourani)
via Momtaza Mehri, quoting @africa on Twitter:
In the years after the 1967 Six Day War, the Israeli army arrested/harassed anyone displaying the Palestinian flag’s colors in Gaza and the West Bank. In response, many Palestinians in the region would carry sliced watermelons in a sign of subversive protest.
Similarly, prominent Palestinian artists have stated they risked imprisonment for simply painting depictions of watermelons, as well as other images (like poppy seed plants) that might have incorporated the national colors.
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