Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

‘No matter who came knocking at the door, the Jews stayed put in their
home-sweet-home, the Land of Israel, for 3,000 years,’ the post on the Israel
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Facebook page reads.
However, the couple are interrupted by a knock at the door from ‘two
hipsters with well-groomed beards’ who speak in an ‘ancient assyrian
language’. After the Asyrrians take over the living room, Jacob and Rachel
move to their bedroom. ‘So it’s now 750BC. In about 2,750 years, we’ll
have some quiet here,’ Jacob jokes.
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The family are then interrupted again by a procession of visitors who claim
the house as their own, including Greeks, Romans, Arabs, crusaders,
Mamluks and Turks from the Ottoman Empire.
There is then another knock on the door as the British arrive, claiming the
house in the name of the British Empire. The British then give them back their
house ‘in the name of the League of Nations’.
The couple celebrate the news, and Jacob says: ‘Finally, a state of our own,
the Land of Israel.’
However, they are interrupted by a Palestinian couple knocking on the door,
who peer inside the house before the video ends.
The video has been denounced as racist, historically inaccurate and insulting.
SHEEP IN THE ROAD : NUMBER 16