K is for Kronstadt

Today there were anti-Islam (and hence anti-Arab, racists have never been strong in their abilities to distinguish between the groups they hate) rallies and this picture here is of someone waving the German and Israeli flag at one of these demonstrations.

You know, the White European Racism Virus never ceases to disgust me at how it continues to plague the world after all these millenia. So, let’s follow this logic:

Against Islam, pro-Israel (anti-Arab), and because they are flying the German flag then somehow they are trying to make the holocaust connection. Yes, yes. It all makes “sense”…except what *I* see in this picture is the same belligerent racism that existed in 1920’s-1940’s Germany, now it’s another group of people that these White Europeans are targeting. Maybe they will be satisfied for another few decades if they are allowed power to commit another genocide.

Same fuckers. No difference. Except now they fly Israel’s flag.

The same people who mobilized across the world to fight Fascism a few generations ago will find themselves mobilizing against these clueless people full of hate.

Antifascismo Para Siempre

Viva Palestina

Started in 2009, the portrait series “Picture an Arab Man” is part of a large body of work capturing semi-nude Arab men of diverse backgrounds. The project is meant to literally picture a new face for Arab males than the one we are so accustomed to perusing in the mainstream media. Breaking down stereotypes as to how Arabs have been represented in the West, as well as in the East, is one of the conceptual aims of this project. I attempt to do so by highlighting the sensual beauty of the Arab man, an unexplored aspect of their identity on the cusp of change in a society that reveres an out-dated form of hyper-masculinity. Moreover, it is an attempt to uncover and break the stereotypes imposed on the Arab male in a post 9/11 world, and provide an alternative visual representation of that identity.