Environmental crisis in Palestine, super-charged by occupation

JVL Introduction

Visualizing Palestine has been producing images and stories over nearly a decade now to advance the cause of the Palestinian people by producing a “factual, rights-based narrative of the Palestinian-Israeli issue”.

It has produced dozens of visuals covering topics ranging from Air BnB on Stolen Land to drones, from Palestinian football teams that might have been to the apartheid that is, from the realities of the occupation to the successes of boycott and divestment campaigns  – and much more besides.

Below we post four of VP’s visuals on environmental justice, which complement well the article posted earlier today on Gaza’s race against climate breakdown.

These images will be discussed in a webinar this Thursday, 20th January at 12.00-1.30 New York time, 7.00-8.30pm Jerusalem time – which means 5.00-6.30pm British time (check it out!).

Visualizing Palestine writes:

Palestinians live in a part of the world that is warming faster than the global average. They also live under a system of Israeli settler colonialism, military occupation, and apartheid that wreaks havoc on both the environment and human rights, making Palestine an important case study to understand how climate change multiplies existing social injustices and inequalities.

Join the Visualizing Palestine team for a conversation with researchers, designers, and activists about environmental and climate justice in Palestine, using VP’s newly launched resource “Between a Rising Tide and Apartheid” as a starting point.

In preparation for this session, we ask all participants to review the following VP visuals introducing the concepts of climate vulnerability, green colonialism, environmental racism, and extractive colonialism in Palestine: see below