God's Throne is Covered with Hostage Stickers:
Testimonies from the October 7th 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.
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.
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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.
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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 sticker printers and MacGyver gumption. It tells our story.
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It is a way to hold the movement in your hands.
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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.
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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.