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image by Tomislav Todorovic,
5 January 2020
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Since 2019 the Israeli "Black Flag Movement" has sought the removal from
office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Bill Garrison,
9 January 2021
Flags derived from Israeli national flag by replacing blue and white colors
with white and black, respectively were used by the participants of the rally in
Tel Aviv on 2019-05-25, which was organized as the protest against the then
government's proposed legislation which would grant Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu immunity from prosecution over corruption charges, as well as
radically limit the powers of the Supreme Court, the latter being considered as
an effort to prevent any similar future prosecutions.
The photos from the
rally can be viewed here:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-tel-aviv-rally-turkeys-erdogan-and-the-handmaids-tale-loom-large/
(image:
https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2019/05/000_1GX42Z.jpg)
and
here:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/protesters-gather-for-mass-rally-to-safeguard-israeli-democracy-from-netanyahu/
(image:
https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2019/05/F190525TNFF09-640x400.jpg)
Tomislav Todorovic, 5 January 2020
image located by Bill Garrison,
9 January 2021
source:
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/04/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-benny-gantz-knesset-black-flag.html
Protesters wearing masks wave Israeli and black flags as a sign of protest,
during a demonstration against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
caretaker government, accusing it of undemocratic measures, outside the Knesset
in Jerusalem, March 25, 2020.
Bill Garrison,
9 January 2021
image located by Bill Garrison,
9 January 2021
The second photo shows a different black flag with white lettering in Hebrew.
Anti-Netanyahu protesters at Havatzelet Hasharon Junction, Saturday, December
12, 2020.
source:
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/black-fag-movement-to-gantz-time-has-come-to-replace-netanyahu-651899
Bill Garrison,
9 January 2021
I am not so certain that this is really a flag - could be just
a demonstration poster. However, note also the pink flags carried by some of the
protesters, seemingly plain, but there's another photo in the same page:
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/black-fag-movement-to-gantz-time-has-come-to-replace-netanyahu-651899,
which reveals a black inscription on yellow background, diagonally oriented (a
label, perhaps) in top fly corner:
https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_Article2016_ControlFaceDetect/467874
More photos of pink flags, also plain:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-anti-netanyahu-protests-resume-as-thousands-take-to-streets-across-israel-1.9277285
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-anti-netanyahu-protesters-mark-six-months-of-weekly-demonstrations-1.9385078
https://www.alamy.com/in-a-futile-attempt-to-stop-the-mounting-protests
https://www.alamy.com/29-sep-2020-anti-corruption-protest
https://www.alamy.com/jerusalem-israel-september-29-a-protester
https://www.alamy.com/29-sep-2020-anti-corruption-protest-against-prime-minister
and of a pink flag with black inscription, possibly the same as the white
inscription on black flag/poster in William's image:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-undeterred-by-stormy-weather-anti-netanyahu-protests-continue-1.9321184
Plain pink flag is currently
presented at the FOTW-ws as an LGBT symbol, with no
verified use in Israel, where it is now clearly used in a different capacity.
Several photos of plain pink flags and one photo of a pink flag/poster
with black inscription, identical typeface as in William's image:
https://fr.timesofisrael.com/18e-semaine-des-rassemblements-anti-netanyahu-dans-tout-le-pays
More photos of pink flags and a pink poster with the said inscription in
black:
https://www.alamy.com/israelis-protest-against-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahus-alleged-corruption-and-the-economic-hardship-stemming-from-the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-crisis-amid-israels-second-nationwide-lockdown-in-tel-aviv-israel-october-8-2020-reutersamir-cohen-image381002242.html
https://www.alamy.com/2102020-tel-aviv-israel-protest-against-prime-minister-netanyahu-and-second-coronavirus-lockdown-early-stages-of-the-protest-in-which-hundreds-were-marching-in-tel-aviv-streets-calling-bibi-netanyahu-to-resign-the-pink-flags-symbolize-the-weakened-populations-grace-empathy-had-become-the-youth-symbol-of-what-they-see-as-the-revolution-image379766007.html
Tomislav Todorovic, 9 January 2021
image located by Bill Garrison,
9 January 2021
The third bottom photo shows a black-white Israeli flag instead of the usual
blue-white national flag.
Protesters wave a black flag, an Israeli flag and
an Israeli flag with the colors inverted, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on
March 19, 2020.
source:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/demonstrators-protest-knesset-closure-scuffle-with-police-in-jerusalem/
Bill Garrison,
9 January 2021
images by Tomislav Todorovic, 25 July 2021
At
https://www.usnews.com/news/ an image shows an Israeli flag with pink
instead of blue. The caption states, "Members of "The Pink Front," a group of
protesters demanding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down over
corruption allegations, hold white/pink-colored Israeli flags (instead of the
usual white/blue colors) during a weekly anti-Netanyahu demonstration, in
Jerusalem"
October 24, 2020. REUTERS/Corinna Ker
A pink display that has now become iconic for the protest was the
re-enactment of the Ink Flag hoisting, a major event of Israel's Independence
War, when Israeli soldiers raised a homemade flag after reaching the shores of
the Red Sea.
Bill Garrison, 22 July 2021
More photos of plain pink flags and Israeli flags with pink instead of blue:
https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/
https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/rkmreDaeO
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/anti-netanyahu-protest
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/anti-netanyahu-protest
https://www.facebook.com/pg/thepinkflag/photos/?ref=page_internal
The shade of pink seems to vary somewhat, although those variations seem to be
partly caused by the varying conditions under which the photos were taken. Also,
the repainted Israeli flags seem to be more oblong than the actual national
flag.
Tomislav Todorovic, 25 July 2021
