This claim takes on further meaning through the orange in which the flag is planted. Prior to Zionist colonisation, Palestinians cultivated a unique variety of orange - the Yafa/Jaffa orange. This orange was a key export from Palestine throughout the 19th & early 20th century 2/
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In Bethlehem, we see a flag planted in an orange, and written on the flag, “My flag in the port of Yafa”. There is a unifying claim of Indigenous sovereignty here that extends from the site of the graffiti in the West Bank, across the colonial border to Yafa, in ’48 Palestine 1/
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With the Zionist colonisation of Palestine, Israel appropriated the Yafa/Jaffa orange both materially and symbolically – stealing Palestinian orange groves, marketing the Yafa/Jaffa orange as an Israeli product, & the orange becoming an Israeli national symbol 3/
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In an ironic e.g. of colonial hubris, while Zionist farmers dismissed Palestinian methods of orange cultivation as “primitive”, a Zionist study found the pre-existing Palestinian methods were far more cost-efficient than the “modern” Zionist-European methods that replaced them 4/
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The flag being planted in the orange in this graffiti therefore represents a Palestinian sovereign claim not only to the city of Yafa, but to the orange that Yafa Palestinians once grew there, as it remains an important symbol of Palestinian belonging in the city 5/5
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