Gaza Multiblock Print

I Stand Up for Gaza

In times when the world’s attention shifts between conflicts, when new wars emerge and headlines change, I choose to remember Gaza. As tensions escalate between around the world, it becomes even more crucial to keep speaking for those whose voices are drowned out by the machinery of war.

Palestinians have the right to exist, to live with dignity on their ancestral land. What we are witnessing in Gaza is genocide – the systematic destruction of a people, their culture, their homes, their very existence. Entire neighborhoods have been erased, families wiped out, children buried under rubble. The scale of death and destruction goes beyond military objectives; it is the deliberate erasure of Palestinian life and identity. In Gaza and the West Bank, innocent civilians continue to pay the highest price for the decisions of military leaders and political regimes far removed from their daily struggles for survival.

Standing up for Gaza does not mean standing against Israeli civilians

What I oppose is not a people, but the systems of oppression, the cycles of violence, the policies that turn children into casualties and families into statistics.

It is always the innocent civilization that pays for the pranks of military leaders. While politicians and generals make decisions from their secure positions, ordinary families bear the consequences. This truth applies whether we speak of Gaza’s destroyed neighborhoods or any population caught between competing powers and their territorial ambitions.

The cycle perpetuates itself through religious and political extremism on all sides. Israelis are shaped by a system that normalizes occupation and violence as necessary for survival. This is the tragic story of a population molded by fear and indoctrination, just as Palestinian children grow up knowing only checkpoints, blockades, and the constant presence of military force. The military’s unhealthy role in the Israeli state is evident in this system that prioritizes conflict over coexistence.

No war has led to victory in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and none will. Both peoples are trapped in a machinery of conflict that serves the powerful while destroying the humanity of the powerless.

Revenge has never brought anyone anywhere

There was always another path, another choice that could have been made. Each act of violence begets more violence, each injustice justified by previous injustices, until we lose sight of our shared humanity.

I stand up for Gaza because justice delayed is justice denied. I stand up for Gaza because silence in the face of oppression makes us complicit. I stand up for Gaza because every child deserves to sleep without fear, every family deserves access to clean water and medical care, every human being deserves the right to move freely in their own homeland.

This is not about choosing sides in an endless war – it is about choosing humanity over military might, choosing compassion over conquest, choosing to remember those the world too often forgets.

All my artwork is handmade and original with a mix of limited and open edition linocut prints plus digitally printed greeting cards. The prints are designed, made, pressed and pulled in my studio in the Laurentides, Canada.

Please note: Because of its handmade nature there may be tiny variations to the picture – be this colour, evenness of ink or other small differences.