OPEN SOURCE ZIONISM:
THE HATIKVAH STICKER DESIGN LIBRARY IS THE HEART OF OUR MOVEMENT THAT CONTAINS 2 YEARS' WORTH OF ZIONIST DESIGNS FROM JEWISH AND ALLIED ARTISTS CREATED IN THE WAKE OF OCTOBER 7TH FROM AROUND THE WORLD. THESE 4X6, 3x3 AND 2X2 INCH STICKER DESIGNS HAVE TAILORED FOR THERMAL PRINTERS AND ARE CONTINUALLY UPDATED.
IT ALSO CONTAINS GUIDES TO THERMAL PRINTING AND STICKER ZINE MAKING. IT INCLUDES A COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL BLACK AND WHITE ASSETS FROM JEWISH ZIONIST ARTISTS OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES THAT CAN EASILY BE ADAPTED FOR THE CREATION OF BLACK AND WHITE THERMAL STICKERS.
USE THEM, PRINT THEM, SEND YOUR OWN DESIGNS TO HATIKVAHCOLLECTIVE@GMAIL.COM TO BE APPROVED AND UPLOADED TO OUR COLLECTIVE OPEN SOURCE LIBRARY.
PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR ARTIST HANDLE AND THE HATIKVAH COLLECTIVE LOGO.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT ZIONIST THERMAL PRINTING, WE OFFER PRINTMAKING WORKSHOPS TO JEWISH SCHOOLS, ACTIVIST GROUPS, SYNAGOGUES, AND COMMUNITIES.
ASK US ABOUT OUR STICKER TABLE.
CONTACT US AT HATIKVAHCOLLECTIVE@GMAIL.COM
*As a matter of artistic etiquette and copyright, please do not modify or financially profit from the designs in this drive. These designs remain the work of the artists who created them and chose to share them for the good and strengthening of the Jewish people.
The Hatikvah Sticker Collective gathers artists who emerged from international online Jewish spaces as a direct response to the Jewish national catastrophe of October 7th. Inspired by the Kidnapped Poster Campaign, which first placed street art directly in the hands of the worldwide Jewish public, the collective draws influence from the early Bezalel School—the first Zionist art academy—and contemporary street art movements.
The Hatikvah Collective’s defining monochrome aesthetic is shaped and inspired by the inherent limitations of thermal printing, a new medium that has revolutionized mass sticker production. Far from being a constraint, the black-and-white format has become the hallmark of the collective’s visual identity. The rise of direct thermal printing—a technology traditionally used for shipping labels—has opened new possibilities for public messaging, allowing for the rapid, low-cost DIY production of stickers. Unlike traditional sticker printing, which is often cost-prohibitive, thermal printing makes large-scale street art accessible to anyone. As one HaTikvah artist put it:
“Anyone with 100 dollars to purchase a printer and 1,000 labels can radically change their neighborhood for the better.”
The Hatikvah Collective is a global movement with international branches across the United States, Israel, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, New Zealand, and the UK. Through this new form of mass-produced Jewish street art, the collective is not just reshaping public spaces—it is forging a new kind of Jewish public citizen who asserts their presence, refuses erasure, and understands that art itself is an act of resistance.
The HaTikvah Collective is more than an art movement—in a world awash with antisemitic rhetoric, we put out a call to reclaim Jewish presence in public spaces. Anyone with a thermal printer and a vision can contribute. Our sticker library is open-source and growing. Print, post, and participate—because Jewish presence is not a given, it is made.
עוד לא אבדה תקוותנו
So long as we create, our hope is not yet lost.
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The Oral and Visual History of the Sticker Campaign
God’s Throne Is Covered with Hostage Stickers is the first oral and visual history of the global Hostage Sticker and Hatikvah Sticker movements. These movements grew out of the original KIDNAPPED Poster campaign and were carried forward by thousands of ordinary people who refused to let the faces of our hostages disappear from public sight.
It tells a collective tale of endurance.
In twenty testimonies with activists from around the world, this book documents a people-powered Jewish movement. Through testimony, photographs, and field notes from Manhattan to Barcelona to Tel Aviv, it captures a year when Jews reclaimed public space with the DIY medium of thermal printing, black and white labels, and a shared commitment to be seen in defiance of antisemitic erasure.
A foreword by Shai Davidai frames this movement as a fight for moral clarity in the physical world and a refusal to surrender the public square to digital noise. A message from Tal Huber, creator of the original Hostage KIDNAPPED Poster Campaign, recognizes the sticker movement as a living continuation of the work she began in October 2023 and honors the activists who carried her images across cities, campuses, and borders.
What started as placing a single face on a lamppost became a worldwide network. Artists, students, families, and complete strangers repeated a simple Zionist message: We will not look away. We will not disappear. We will not abandon each other.
The Hatikvah Sticker Collective grew directly from this moment, spreading the DIY medium of thermal printing and giving people the tools to print hope, build community, and reclaim public space. This book is the archive of that grassroots effort, the people who built it, the stories that shaped it, and the visual language that defined it.
This book is presented as a handbook for how a decentralized grassroots movement for the Jewish people was built with nothing but spit sticker printers and MacGyver gumption. It tells our story.
It is a way to hold the movement in your hands.
Printed as a softcover coffee table book, it is sized and priced for wide accessibility. Eighteen percent of proceeds from this book will be donated to the Here I Am Movement to support the creation of a new Jewish grassroots network in the post October 7 world.
Elisha Fine is an activist, social worker and historian living in New York City. He is central to the international Hostage sticker movement and the founder of the Hatikvah Collective, an international community of activists dedicated to Israel, Jewish Life, and the return of all our hostages. Elisha’s work is featured in the documentary Torn: The Israel-Palestine Poster War on NYC Streets.