Khaled Jarrar
Domenica 13 luglio all'artista palestinese Khaled Jarrar, la polizia di frontiera di Israele nega il permesso di uscire dal paese.
Jarrar è artista noto.lavora con foto,performance, film,installazioni. Ha toccato nei suoi lavori temi sociali, religiosi e politici e ha partecipato a film festival e biennali d'arte da Londra a Berlino.
Era in partenza per New York dove lo aspettava il New Museum per la collettiva “Here and Elsewere” curata da Massimiliano Gioni e il Whitebox Art Center dove era in programma una sua personale dal 24 luglio dal profetico titolo “ No Exit”.
Bloccato alla frontiera ha annunciato che parteciperà comunque via Skype. E intanto ha inviato questa testimonianza
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khaled jarrar at the checkpoint
Khaled Jarrar
' "ZE ZEVEL" – That means, "he is garbage!" When I was trying to cross Allenby Bridge as usual, I heard one soldier say this to his superior officer, while they were arguing about me in Hebrew. That was the only word that I could understand from their discussion. Allenby Bridge is my only gate to the world. Amman is the only place from where I can fly to the world. Yesterday I was denied exit from the West Bank. I was surprised, because never before did the Israelis prevent me from traveling. I was shocked that I was sent back and couldn't cross Allenby Bridge. People tried to help me and reached out to the authorities. Everything was checked, but after a very long wait and without understanding what was happening, I was informed "security reasons" would prevent me from traveling until the 1st of August. For now that means that I missed my morning flight from Amman to New York, that I will miss the opening of the show at the New Museum, and that I will miss the artist talk with Lamia Joreige and Charif Kiwan that is supposed to happen on the 16th of July.
Khaled Jarrar "Olympiad Palestine"-
Yesterday was the longest day of my life and a day of humiliation. I felt real racism on the part of the security at Allenby Bridge. When this one soldier was talking to his superior officer and I understood what he said ("ze zevel"), I shouted at him that I was no “zevel” and he was impolite to call me that. No one listened to me, like I did not even exist. It's a long story and it's the story of many people who are being denied from crossing Allenby Bridge for security reasons by order of the Israeli intelligence. On the day that I wanted to cross, it meant that I missed my flight to the USA, my first time traveling there, and my show. Another man, a PhD student, missed his flight to give a talk in Spain. Another man wanted to go to Amman to spend the last days of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr with his family, but he was not allowed
Khaled Jarrar speaking from Ramallah 14 July
