Nazi’s scream as performance art and Palestine’s agony
Posted by: John Phoenix
'Israel’s' scream as performance art and Palestine’s agony
Rima Najjar
Sustained scream performed by Israeli protesters in front of Tel Aviv’s Museum of Art, January 2024
An art event staged in front of Tel Aviv Museum of Art in January 2024 called on the crowd to perform a sustained scream in unison to dramatize Israeli pain and frustration at the hostage situation. To me, this performance was emotionally and psychologically inauthentic, not only because it is rehearsed — i.e., the scream is not a real-life situation like the scream of agony heard coming from Palestinian crowds in Gaza as they are being shelled — but because it is truthful only in so far as it conforms to the artistic tradition of hasbara and its false narrative of Israeli victimho...










