West Bank Wall Targeted with Political Graffiti

The West Bank barrier wall has been a target for graffiti artists since it was erected. Some of the work has been artistically beautiful and others strongly politically charged. Australian artist Lushsux (twitter, @lushsux) adds some political figures such as, Trump, Hillary, Zuckerberg, Nelson Mandela and others to the wall.

The ambiguous graffiti artist has been taking things to a whole new level over the past few weeks. He's been busy creating huge murals of some familiar faces but with added confusion of wrong face with the wrong quote. What makes the work even more unique is that Lushsux has been asking for requests from his fans on social media. Per those requests, he has added images of US President Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and even actor Larry David to the wall in the historically religious area of Bethlehem.

He has added an image of actor Morgan Freeman alongside a quote by former South African president and political activist, Nelson Mandela: "We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Again, the sometimes confusing and strange imagery is clear as Mandela said it and not Morgan Freeman. 

Posted by the artists Twitter page on Monday, he painted a mural of Hillary Clinton asking "What happened?" which is the title of her new book. The image of Hillary was painted as an almost cartoonish like figure right next to a more realistic grinning Trump with the speech bubble "I happened." The twitter post included a tag to the real Hillary Clinton page, it captioned, 'anyone know what happened @hillaryclinton?'



No one can escape his sometimes strange imagery as Lushsux posted an image of Larry David on Instagram (@lushsux) last week, asking his followers "Paint this on Israel/Palestine border wall? Yeh or nah?" After an overwhelming 'yes', he then posted a photo of the mural - with a blank speech bubble - and requested input on the caption. "Best comment goes in the bubble..."

The winning phrase was, "'This place would be a fantastic place to come if Jews were cheating on their wives' - Bernie Sanders." This was from when Sanders was running for president and David portrayed him in a Saturday Night Live sketch.

Before painting an image of the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, he posted on his twitter account, "Wall the zuck? Or will I get zucced for painting him?".  Sooner after another post stating, "Will this post get zucced? Negative or affirmative?"

Lushsux also asked his followers if he should add a Trump firing back at rapper Eminem (after his freestyle rap he released last week).  Again the overwhelming yes meant the image was also to be added and it did not disappoint.

The image of the US president is seen writing near similar words from Eminem's 2002 song, Stan ft. Dido.  It read, "Dear Slim, I wrote you but you still ain't callin', I left my cell, my pager and the White House phone at the bottom."