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<h1 class="title" id="page-title">What would Israeli occupation look
like in Central Park?</h1>
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rel="sioc:has_creator">Submitted by <span class="username" xml:lang=""
about="/users/asa-winstanley" typeof="sioc:UserAccount"
property="foaf:name" datatype="">Asa Winstanley</span> on Thu,
10/10/2013 - 12:00<br>
<small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/what-would-israeli-occupation-look-central-park">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/what-would-israeli-occupation-look-central-park</a></small></small><br>
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<p>“Uprooted” (<a
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<span class="credit">(<a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/people/visualizing-palestine"
typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Visualizing
Palestine</a>)</span> </div>
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<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/visualizing-palestine">Visualizing
Palestine</a> released this new infographic today, highlighting the
issue of Israeli destruction of Palestinian agricultural land. The
group said in a press release:
<blockquote> This week marked the start of the annual Palestinian olive
harvest, an ancient tradition on which 80,000 families still rely for
their livelihoods. Yet these families face growing economic hardship
due to Israeli land confiscations, access restrictions, settler
attacks, and not least the widespread uprooting, destruction and theft
of the trees themselves. The infographic “Uprooted” focuses on the
staggering fact that Israeli authorities have uprooted over 800,000
Palestinian olive trees since 1967, the equivalent to razing all of the
24,000 trees in New York’s central park 33 times.
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This work is part of a series of four the project is releasing as part
of a month-long funding campaign it launched this week on a
crowd-funding site. I <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/graphic-details-how-visualizing-palestine-designed-fight-justice/12122">reported
in January</a> on the beginnings of Visualizing Palestine, and
interviewed Ahmad Barclay, who explained their motivation:
<blockquote> the main driver in what we’re doing is, there’s not a lack
of information about Palestine — that’s clearly not the problem. It’s
to do with how that’s being disseminated — like if there’s a 200-page
report that explains the situation facing child prisoners or whatever
under Israeli custody — that’s not going to be read by the mainstream
public.
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