"Schluß mit der israelischen Aggression": FDJ students' Lebanon solidarity meeting, Berlin
Students stand clapping at an outdoor meeting under bunting, holding hand-lettered placards: 'Schluß mit der israelischen Aggression' and a magazine page headed 'Solidarität mit der PLO'. The agency caption frames the war as 'the genocide of imperialism in Lebanon', a loaded label put in place of a description of the events.
- Date
- July 22, 1982
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- ADN-Zentralbild (GDR state news agency), photographer Bernd Settnik; meeting of FDJ students at a tent camp in the Plänterwald, Berlin
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Leader
- Willi Stoph
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- 1982 Lebanon War
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-1982-0722-037, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 de (Bundesarchiv release on Wikimedia Commons; file page states the licence)
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1982-0722-037 / Settnik, Bernd / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
Solidari[tät] mit der PLO SCHLUß MIT DER ISRAELISCHEN AGGRESSION [placard in Arabic script, not transcribed]
Solidari[ty] with the PLO AN END TO ISRAELI AGGRESSION [placard in Arabic script, not transcribed]
Read from the 800 px image. The magazine-page placard at top left is cut off at its right edge ('Solidari' + partly hidden letters). The Arabic calligraphy placard is not transcribed. The printed strip at the bottom of the image is the Bundesarchiv's own credit line, not part of the object.
