134 JERUSALEM'S SEPARATION WALL AND GLOBAL MESSAGE BOARD: GRAFFITI, MURALS, AND THE ART OF SUMUD By Craig Larkin All this graiti that you see on the wall, even when it’s not political, is not an act of adjustment. It’s an act of resistance! Shopkeeper from East Jerusalem, 9 February 2011 Israel’s “security fence” ( geder ha-hafrada) or Palestine’s “apartheid wall” ( jidar al-faşl al-‘unşuri) 1 currently covers 708 kilometers, annexes 9.4 percent of he West Bank, integrates eighty Israeli settlements, and separates about ity-ive thousand Palestinian Jerusalemites from their kin in East Jerusalem. he barrier’s construction continues to provoke a wide range of resistance discourses, international protests, and solidarity campaigns. 2 A plethora of scholarship and media coverage has sought to challenge the wall’s legality, 3 highlighting its associated human rights violations through the obstruction of access to jobs, public services, education, and family. Other reports turn attention to the efects of dispossession and territorial fragmentation on Craig Larkin is Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East at King’s College London.