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‘It’s like a fire in the world’: how the Israeli ‘kidnapped’ posters set off a phenomenon and a backlash

Nitzan Mintz and Dede Bandaid shared flyers online that have been plastered and torn down globally amidst the war in Gaza

The visual poet and the graffiti artist never expected to set off a global phenomenon and then a furious backlash.

Nitzan Mintz and her partner, Dede Bandaid, launched the now ubiquitous red and white posters of Israelis abducted by Hamas – each one with a photograph and the age of the disappeared under the banner “KIDNAPPED” – a couple of days after the 7 October attack in an attempt to ensure that the 200-plus hostages were not forgotten in the looming war in Gaza.

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