Shattered the Fascist Tanks, Palestine, ca. 1970

GHASSAN KANAFANI (1936—1972)

Translated: “Glory to the militants who shattered the fascist tanks in the military command units”

Born in Acre in 1936, Ghassan Kanafani was a leading Palestinian thinker, author, activist, and painter. Often referred to as “a commando who never fired a gun,” Kanafani’s lesser-known visual art was frequently used by the PFLP to promote popular resistance. In 1972, Kanafani and his niece were murdered in Beirut by the Mossad. 

Shattered was reproduced by the PFLP in various colorways. Here, a fighter, brightly illustrated in pink, places explosives onto an enemy tank. The text in white provides context glorifying the militants who fought for the Palestine Liberation Organization against King Hussein’s “fascist” regime during Black September.

poster: https://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/the-eye-of-the-fighter-is-never-shut 

citations: https://www.palquest.org/en/biography/6566/ghassan-kanafani