The struggle for Palestinian hearts and minds: Violence and public opinion in the Second Intifada

The Al-Aqsa Intifada was the second Palestinian uprising that took place in 2000–2005. The dramatic record of the Intifada expressing itself in waves of recurring terror attacks and the construction of the separation wall on the border between Israel and Palestine overturned the Israeli-Palestinian relationship and triggered international public opinion. The article aims to determine how those events influenced the art scene. The study performs an overview of activities and artistic phenomena which occurred from 2000 through 2015 and problematized the events of the Second Intifada in various ways. The author focuses on individual works of art by both Israeli and international artists as well as art events and exhibitions of the leading kind. The analysis shows the extensive impacts of the Intifada on the artistic environment of that time and leads the author to the conclusion of the Intifada’s prevailing role in shaping politically engaged Israeli art at the beginning of 21 century. The dramatic events came up in creating a new aesthetic of the conflict, resulted in expanding a cultural boycott of Israel as well as challenged the position of politically engaged artists of Israel.

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Shamir, J. & Shikaki, K. (2010). Palestinian and Israeli Public Opinion: The Public Imperative in the Second Intifada.

International Journal of Public Opinion Research ◽

10.1093/ijpor/edr010 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 230-233

Author(s):

M. van Leeuwen

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

The Public ◽

Second Intifada

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Educating Global Citizens in the Cold War

Between Citizens and the State ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691148274.003.0005 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Christopher P. Loss

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Higher Education ◽

Cold War ◽

Public Opinion ◽

Global Citizens ◽

Leading Role ◽

The Cold War ◽

Hearts And Minds ◽

Public Opinion Polls ◽

Opinion Polls

This chapter depicts the challenges posed to higher education during the Cold War. Despite suffering a torrent of anticommunist attacks—and more than a few casualties—higher education also played a leading role in the government's battle for hearts and minds in the 1950s. At home and abroad the American state deployed education in order to produce democratic citizens and then used public opinion polls to evaluate the integrity of the production process. Obsessively tracked during the Cold War, “public opinion” offered policymakers and educational elites access to the American people's collective psychological adjustment and mental health, to their intellectual fitness and their knowledge of the bipolar Cold War world in which they lived.

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