May 3, 2001

12:15 AM

Despite major American museums' and academia's unwillingness to host his Palestine Poster Project,Dan Walsh has continued for 20 years on his quest to educate Americans about the Palestinian culture and cause with his collection of 3,200 original Palestinian solidarity posters. He has posted about a hundred of them in the online gallery at his Liberation Graphics website. He also has a fascinating collection of Che Guevera posters as part of his Cuba Poster Project.
posted by tamim (1 comment total)

Very good stuff here. I assume that universities are so fearful of being politically correct that in any situation where there is a division of thought as in Palestinian/Israeli conflict, the university will insist upon a "balanced" view that will show both contending parties. Oddly, once an issued has been ended, then showing something becomes acceptable, such as art from the Nazi party. Another oddity: much of this art is done by Israelis, shown in Israel these days, and yet in our land, so proud of its freedoms, there is no outlet.
Alex de Tocqueville had it right: in a democracy there is freedom but there is also control by majority opinion which stiffles dissenting minority view.
posted by Postroad at 4:58 AM on May 3, 2001