Handala Dropped from SF State Mural

The bottom half of this article about the unveiling of a cultural mural by Palestinian students at San Francisco State talks about how the final product did not include an image of Handala, the iconic figure used by Naji al-Ali before his murder in 1987. It seems that Handala has come to represent the Palestinian notion of right of return, which some people think of as a notion of automatic threat to the continue existence of an Israeli state, a meaning I wasn't aware of. In fact, now I'd love to know if that's a specific meaning al-Ali intended or, seeing as he's carrying stuff in some of the post-'87 imagery, if that's something that's grown out of the character since his death in a kind of internationally political Pissing Calvin manner.
 
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