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The print is distressed — the texture of a poster that has lived through weather, of a wall that has been painted over and painted again, of a symbol that has refused to be removed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE HISTORY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1967, after the occupation began, the Israeli military made it illegal to display the Palestinian flag in the occupied territories. The watermelon — same four colors as the flag, no special arrangement required, just a fruit — became the substitute. Painters were arrested for the colors alone. The ban could not stop the produce. The produce became the flag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ban lifted on paper in 1993 and returned in practice. In 2023 the Israeli national security minister ordered the confiscation of Palestinian flags at checkpoints. The watermelon was already back in every storefront window, on every shirt, on every protest sign — the symbol the state cannot ban without banning lunch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHY IT ENDURES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe falling seeds are the displaced. The colors are the flag the state tried to make disappear. The distress in the print is every poster that has weathered every wall since 1967. The shirt is what a flag looks like when a state spent half a century trying to make it stop being one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWEAR IT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe march. The grocery store. 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