Solidaryzujemy się z mordowanym narodem palestyńskim pozbawionym praw, rodzin i ziemi. Mówimy izraelskiemu reżimowi i jego wspólnikom: Nie wykorzeniajcie! Zakończcie ludobójstwo! Palma, która powstała po drugiej Intifadzie, wskazuje na stulecia wykorzeniania Żydów i masowych mordów w Polin,
ziemi, którą wiele milionów Żydów od dawna i z pasją nazywało domem, w tym nasi przodkowie, którzy mieszkali w Warszawie, nasze prababcie: Sara Rothenstein i Rosa Stern. W ten sam sposób Palma opowiada o współczesnych nam realiach życia i śmierci w Palestynie/Izraelu, rzeczywistości, która jest echem ropiejących ran Europy. Należy położyć kres podstawowym przesłankom państwa narodowego, jakim jest wyludnienie, samobójczy militaryzm i rasistowskie granice! Krzyczymy z ocalałymi i rodzinami ofiar masakry z 7 października:

„Nie chcemyzemstydokonywanej w naszymimieniu!” – Michal Halev „Musimyprzerwaćbłędnekoło [przemocy]!” – Maoz Inon
„Jedynymwyjściem jest wolnośćirównośćdlawszystkich! – Noi Katsman

 Nie wykorzeniajcie! Palestynabędzieżyć!

We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people being severed from their lives, rights, families, and earth. We say to the Israeli regime and its accomplices: Do not uproot! End the genocide! Created after the Second Intifada, this palm makes visible centuries of anti-Jewish uprooting, severance, and mass murder in Polin, a part of earth many millions of Jews long and passionately called home, including our ancestors who lived in Warsaw, Sara Rothenstein and Rosa Stern. In the same act, the palm points to the contemporary conditions of life and death in Palestine/Israel, an extension and outsourcing of the festering wounds in Europe. The nation-state’s fundamental premise of depopulation, suicidal militarism, and racist borders must end! We scream with the survivors and families of the victims of the October 7th massacre:

“In my name, I want no vengeance” – Michal Halev
 “We must break the cycle” – Maoz Inon
 “The only way is freedom and equality for everyone” – Noi Katsman

Do not uproot! Palestine will live!

Joanna Rajkowska
Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman
Warszawa, 14 December 2023

Exhibition History:

1-31 May 2025. The Body Called Palestine, SAHMAT, NewDelhi, India. Curated by Amit Mukhopadhyay.

Collaborator Biographies:

Grupa Granica (GG) is a social movement that opposes how authorities have responded to the events on the Polish-Belarusian border. It assists forced migrants who find themselves on the Polish territory and monitors human rights violations. The movement includes activists from all over Poland, including residents of border areas, and a growing group of NGOs.

Joanna Rajkowska (b. 1968, Bydgoszcz) is a visual and performance artist. Her work includes videos, installations, sculptures, and actions in the public space. Rajkowska studied mural painting in Professor Jerzy Nowosielski’s studio at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts (1993). A year earlier, she received a master’s degree in art history from the Jagiellonian University. She also studied at SUNY as part of the Studio Semester Program. She often combines art with activism. Her work addresses important issues such as memory, trauma, and social solidarity. Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue, 2002, which has become a symbol of Warsaw, remains her most famous project. In 2007, she was awarded the Passport of Polityka. In 2022, she received the Maria Anto and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Award for Outstanding Achievement and Artistic Attitude and the Grand Prize of the Polish Culture Foundation for Lifetime Achievement. She lives and works in Warsaw.