Connor Letourneau

Chris Gazaleh was trying to find just the right shade of blue when he glanced up at his Mission Street mural and shook his head. For the fifth time in 10 months, he was deciding how to repaint his scene of Palestinian resistance after it had been vandalized. The unnamed piece, of a kaffiyeh-clad Palestinian man preparing to throw a rock at an Israeli tank, now had “F— HAMAS” scrawled across it in black spray paint. Instead of using a bullhorn or chant like the thousands of pro-Palestinian demons…