Lazet! Words and Art against the War in Gaza

“Livni” by Avi Buchbut

In the vein of Drafted Art, a collaboration of Israeli artists opposed to the 2006 Lebanon War (in which I participated), several Israeli artists and poets opposed to the war in Gaza have issued a new collection of work expressing their dissent.

Ronen Eidelman, a co-organizer of both Drafted Art and this new collaboration, writes:

Lazet! (לצאת) A Collection against the war in Gaza and the abandonment of the south, was created in great urgency and anger, immediately with the beginning of the war, as a prompt protest act. The collection is a collaborative project by Maayan, Etgar, Maarav, Daka, Sedek art and poetry journals and Guerrilla culture group. On the third day of the war we sent out the open call. On the fifth day of the war we sat for twelve intense hours of editing to chose material. We received hundreds of poems, drawings, essays, stories and stories, but unfortunately it was only possible to use a small portion for the print. We rushed to have the booklet ready for the big “Against the War” demonstration in Tel Aviv that will take place on Saturday night – a week for the war.

Lazet! Calls to the end of the occupation and denounces the massacres and killings. Lazet! Calls for an immediate seize fire. Lazet! Calls to to emerge (”Lazet”) in a long term and visionary action of living together, dialogue and corporation based on true equality.

Download it here (Hebrew-only PDF).

Tags: Art, gaza, hebrew, israel, palestine, poetry, War