Pro-Palestinian activist's 'Rubble Bucket Challenge' for Gaza goes viral

[Jefferson23]

Reporter tries to raise awareness about plight of Gazans using video message similar to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.


By Haaretz | Aug. 25, 2014 | 5:57 PM

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A pro-Palestinian is leveraging the popularity of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge with his own Rubble Bucket Challenge to raise awareness about the situation in the Gaza Strip.

Journalist Ayman al-Aloul started the Rubble Bucket Challenge Community page on Facebook on Saturday. The page already has over 2,265 "Likes" and has inspired copycat videos on YouTube.

"Although we cannot bring the families buried under the rubble of their homes back to life, we still can stop it from continuing to happen," he wrote on the community page. "Dare to accept the challenge for #Gaza and for the future of humanity.

"I have to do something and to send a message all over the world about Gaza," said al-Aloul, 42, according to NBC News. He discussed the idea with friends, some of whom suggested he use either a bucket of blood or shrapnel," NBC reported.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.612391

[oberliner]

1. Palestinians are fantastic at PR

No group is better at getting their message out and garnering international support for their cause.

Very cleverly done.

[shaayecanaan]

19. They are clearly media superpowers...

I can't even turn on the television without encountering a slick PR performance by some Hamas spokesperson spouting talking points, and the American cable news media are clearly falling over themselves in their willingness to give the Palestinians a platform.

I am just so disgusted with how pro-Palestinian the American media is. Why don't they have a sense of balance?

[oberliner]

25. Indeed

Moreso with new media than old. If you check out twitter hashtags related to #gaza - it is seriously off the charts relative to other conflicts around the world.

[Jefferson23]

34. Yep, even more powerful than AIPAC. Someone needs to stop that shit, now...it's getting

out of hand. The US Congress will be siding with the Palestinians very soon.

[Ken Burch]

43. It's about making a point.

This journalist is speaking for himself, and it's a vivid and effective thing he's doing here. You have no reason to mock the guy.

[King_David]

2. First time I'm seeing this "viral" video

And I'm sure now it's been posted in our IP group with 15 regular posters it's sure to really go "viral".

[oberliner]

5. It's bigger than you think

Articles on NBC News and Times of Israel. And more on the way...

Expect to see Ali Abuminah and Glenn Greenwald taking the challenge.

Maybe Phil Weiss too?

[bemildred]

6. Yeah, I've seen it a lot. nt

[King_David]

8. 2,265 "Likes"

[oberliner]

12. And rising...

I'm telling you - it could catch on and spread very quickly.

[Violet_Crumble]

26. Yeah, when I just checked it's up to 147,846 n/t

[oberliner]

28. Is that for the Facebook page or the YouTube video?

Either way, I had a feeling the number would rise quickly.

[Violet_Crumble]

29. The YouTube clip...

Gotta admit I haven't liked it or even watched it, coz it'd involve having to log in and then having to turn off the music I'm listening to right now

[oberliner]

30. I thought it was pretty clever

Provides a powerful visual and is something that supporters can replicate and feel like they are doing something to help.

[Jefferson23]

33. The numbers jumped way up. n/t

[King_David]

40. Is approx 9000 likes on FB viral ?

Maybe .

[Ken Burch]

44. You have no reason to be snarky here.

You know perfectly well the assault on Gaza was barbaric and indefensible, and that nothing positive came of it.

[oberliner]

45. What does that have to do with the video?

I don't understand your comment. Did you mean it in response to someone else?

[Ken Burch]

46. All your posts sound like they're mocking this man and what he's doing here.

Your feelings about the assault on Gaza are directly relevant to that.

All he's doing is trying to make a creative response to the misery that's been inflicted on Gaza, and you seem to be just dissing him from a point of safety and comfort, far from the reality of the situation.

[4now]

3. Here is the Facebook page link

It seems very busy right now.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rubble-Bucket-Challenge/754732341257955?_fb_noscript=1

[oberliner]

4. That FB page corrects the misinformation in the original article

The article credits Ayman Aloul for starting this, but the FB page says otherwise.

I bet this will be big.

[Jefferson23]

10. Thank you so much for adding the link. +1. n/t

[4now]

7. Netanyahu trys the bucket challenge - Toon

:large
#BloodBucketChallenge

[King_David]

9. He's wearing a Magen Dovid around his neck .

So it's blue but doesn't look like it's a symbol of the Israeli flag they getting at .

Probably used as a Jewish symbol ?

Do you have a link for that ? I would like to peruse their other cartoons unless it's your own original work ?

[shaayecanaan]

20. Maybe you should try colour matching the star here

against the blue used in the Israeli flag. You could use either the Pantone Matching System or RAL:-

http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx

Maybe even go down to your local paint store and ask for some paint chips. If the colours are more than say two or three shades apart then you've got a clear case of anti-semitism.

To bring attention to this perfidy, I would suggest standing outside the NYT offices wearing a bright blue mankini. Make sure that the mankini is an exact match for the blue in the Israeli flag though.

[Ken Burch]

47. Obviously it's a reference to the Israeli flag. It isn't a comment on Judaism or Jews.

And it goes without saying that that poster had no bigoted intent.

My one criticism of the image is the fangs. They were over-the-top.

But that's probably just the cartoonist letting rage get the better of her or him. The fangs would have been there if that same person had drawn Nixon(in reference to the Cambodian bombings or the fascist coup in Chile) or Reagan(in reference to Central America)or Clinton(about his bombing of Libya).

[oberliner]

11. What is the message of that cartoon?

Why is he pouring a bucket of blood over himself?

[4now]

13. I don't know

Why do you think Netanyahu is pouring a bucket of blood over his head.

[oberliner]

14. I don't know either

But I'm not the one who posted it. I thought maybe you had an idea as to what it meant since you did.

Is it definitely meant to be Netanyahu? Not just some random older Jewish person?

There's a good Latuff cartoon along similar lines - but it's not of a guy with a Star of David around his neck.

Check it out:

?w=590

[4now]

15. I wonder what that toon means

[King_David]

16. Your cartoon doesn't look like Netanyahu

Got a link ?

[4now]

17. What are you trying to say?

[King_David]

18. I want see link and peruse the others ,

Unless it's yours original in which case no problem . Who's work did you post here?

If it's not yours for copyright reasons you should at least link it or cite it like Oberliner did his.

[4now]

22. If you want to find the source for any image posted

on a forum or most web pages. All you have to do is right click on the image and the choose "view image info&quot or something similar) from the pop-up menu.
Simple.

[intaglio]

27. There is a signature in the bottom right

Latuff,

A Google search "latuff cartoon" reveals Carlos Latuff whose web page is here

[shaayecanaan]

21. I can explain

Any red pigment or blood in any editorial cartoon concerning Israel is automatically considered an invocation of the medieval "blood libel" whereby Jews were believed to use the rendered carcasses of Christian babies in making flatbread, crackers, and other associated finger foods.

Likewise, any use of the colour yellow is considered a reference to the yellow Jewish star which the Nazis forced Jews to wear. Think I'm joking? See here:-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=50697

Additionally, any use of the colour green is interpreted as support for Hamas, whose flag is green, whereas any use of black amounts to support for ISIS, whose flag is black.

Accordingly, any cartoons pertaining to Israel should be exclusively rendered in either mauve or mission brown, or, subject to approval, any combination thereof. Please note however that any use of the font "Comic Sans MS" remains anti-semitic irrespective of its colour.

[4now]

24. Thanks for the information

I never would have guessed that it would be the colors in the cartoon that they would be offended about.
I choose to be offended by things that are really happening right now, like the murder of over 400 innocent children by the IDF.

[oberliner]

31. Well said

It's important to have a sense of the history of antisemitic imagery in cartoons. I appreciate your making this post to help provide context for those who are less aware of that history.

[shaayecanaan]

37. Good to have you back

Its not much fun without you.

[oberliner]

38. Likewise

This board is a much more interesting place when you are a regular contributor to it.

[Ken Burch]

48. It's a dark reference to the "ice bucket challenge".

And it's a comment to the blood of innocent Gazan civilians(including hundreds of children-NONE of whom was responsible for anything Hamas has ever done)that Netanyahu spilled during his completely unjustified bombing campaign.

And it isn't anything else.

And you know it.

[grahamhgreen]

23. LMAO!!!!!

....then cried.

[Jefferson23]

32. Yes, it is emotional to watch. n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

35. Kick, Rec and Liked ( on Youtube). n/t

[Jefferson23]

36. Thanks.

[Jefferson23]

39. Let's give this more time. n/t

[Jefferson23]

41. Take a moment and take a look. n/t

[King_David]

42. 11000 likes on FB

[Ken Burch]

49. Which is a lot, for just being up three days. n/t.

[Jefferson23]

50. “The Ice Bucket Challenge” inspires a solidarity campaign with Gaza

Marwa Morgan / September 8, 2014 /




Mahmoud Darwazeh, a Jordanian stand-up comedian, stands in-front of a camera with a bucket by his feet. Darwazeh explains that he has been issued the “Ice Bucket Challenge” by a fellow comedian, Nicholas Khoury. Instead of pouring ice water over his head in solidarity with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patients, Darwazeh pours sand and dust on his head in solidarity with children of Gaza.

Darwazeh’s video inspired Maysam Abumorr, 25, a political science student in Gaza University, who wrote to him asking for permission to start a Facebook page called “The Rubble Bucket Challenge”.

Videos of celebrities and private individuals taking “The Ice Bucket Challenge” went viral on Facebook during the same time as the war on Gaza, said Abumorr. She, like many others, became aware of ALS, the disease she had never heard about before.

As Abumorr thought of a similar way to powerfully promote the cause of Gaza, she saw Darwazeh’s video.

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2014/09/08/ice-bucket-challenge-inspires-solidarity-campaign-gaza/