{"id":425721,"date":"2026-05-05T01:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/425721\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:39:08","slug":"new-banksy-blinded-by-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/425721\/","title":{"rendered":"New Banksy: Blinded by Nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/editor-1777919453-cfb228bb.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banksy.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Banksy<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXwf7pis6KT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">installed<\/a> (without a permit, one assumes) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/europe\/erected-in-central-london-banksy-s-latest-divides-broken-britain-20260503-p5zt6n\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new statue<\/a> in London that depicts a man in a suit marching off off a ledge, blinded by a flag.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork has been dubbed Blind Patriotism, although Banksy, enigmatic as always, doesn\u2019t explain the meaning of his latest work. However, many have interpreted it as satirising the rise of nationalistic fervour in the UK, typified by the populist politician Nigel Farage and other forces on the far right.<\/p>\n<p>Another bullseye for Banksy. \ud83c\udfaf\n<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artist Banksy has installed (without a permit, one assumes) a new statue in London that depicts a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-425721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}