Photo: A Banksy Mural's Ghostly Outline

The street artist's London mural appeared after the U.K. Parliament voted to ban a group that uses "disruptive tactics" against manufacturers supplying weapons to Israel.

In September, street artist Banksy painted a judge beating a protester with a gavel on the Royal Courts of Justice in London following a vote by Parliament to use anti-terrorism laws to ban Palestine Action—a U.K.-based group that uses "disruptive tactics" against manufacturers supplying weapons to Israel. Authorities removed the mural, but the ghostly outline that remains has intensified its message.

Comments

[Terry Anne Lieber (Don't Feed Tony)]

Banksy is an ill-informed Jew-hating far-leftist vandal.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Hey! You forgot that he also stole ideas from they live and the copyright liberation front!

[Mickey Rat]

Oh no, the poor Hamas supporters! Anyway....

[Chumby]

Wanksky?

[mad.casual]

the ghostly outline that remains has intensified its message.

WoooooOOOOOOooooooh! DuuuUUUUuuue ProooooceSSSSS!

Jinkies Chumby! It's the ghost of due process!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

How about a Banksy mural protesting some young British girls oppressing rapefugees?

[mad.casual]

street artist's

You misspelled posh, D-tier activist and political cartoonist.

Slightly better than the retards who tagged Stonehenge.

[Chumby]

Bansky is edgy in 2025 like Smashing Pumpkins is fresh in 2025.

[Kungpowderfinger]

“Street artist”, my ass.

https://uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/who-is-banksy-and-whats-his-net-worth-in-2024-3417372

While Banksy’s art has earned him widespread recognition and considerable wealth, with an estimated net worth of $50 million, his refusal to conform to the traditional norms of the art world is perhaps his most defining characteristic.

Eschewing the gallery system, Banksy has opted to sell his works independently, often through his own channels or at auction houses where they fetch substantial sums.

[mad.casual]

Right. For maybe 6 mos. it's credible that he's some vagrant savant with some exceptional political insight.

After about a year of "Who is it reeeeally?" in the most CCTVed, ID badged island in the world, it's pretty clear that if nobody knows who he is, it's either because he's seriously connected and/or it's part of the act. His work isn't crypto and he isn't out working in the mountains of Hellmud Province-style wasteland (yet).

In 2025, along the lines of what Chumby said, anybody taking Banksy as some serious artistic social commentary should be regarded as someone telling people they need to pick up the Sunday paper to read Bloom County and Doonesberry.

[NealAppeal]

Property damage is free speech...unless it's moving a barricade or putting feet on a desk while being conservative.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Or driving on a rainbow cross walk PAINTED ON THE FUCKING STREET!

[Kungpowderfinger]

Palestine Action—a U.K.-based group that uses "disruptive tactics" against manufacturers supplying weapons to Israel

That’s not all they do, cupcake:

At the time, Palestine Action said, in a statement: "Palestine Action ruined a 1914 painting by Philip Alexius de László inside Trinity College, University of Cambridge, of Lord Arthur James Balfour - the colonial administrator and signatory of the Balfour Declaration."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2xpnx93epo

Hopefully they won’t fuck up one of Brother Bansky’s million dollar pieces before he can sell it to some limousine liberal.

[mad.casual]

Pretty self-evidently, unless we're talking about them specifically participating in a public debate, "disruptive" and "tactics" is, pretty categorically, neither peaceable assembly nor speech.

Not that Reason "Sprache macht Frei" Magazine would make the distinction.

[Incunabulum]

>The street artist's London mural

You mean 'the vandal's graffiti'. That the man? has talent is undeniable - its still graffiti and he's still a vandal.

Also, why is it not ok to do this? The pro-terrorists do this all the time.

[MK Ultra]

I miss Cool "Disco" Dan.

https://youtu.be/E4gK4HFEw88?si=1MB4PBCCWYyUSSv-