A bloody conflict in the Middle East plays out in graffiti on North Claiborne Ave. in NOLA

In 2019 or 2020, a striking, graffiti-style mural appeared on North Claiborne Avenue near Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans. The skillfully crafted painting depicted two alluring eyes that seemed to focus on passing traffic. The spray-painted mural was signed You Go Girl, a pseudonym of one of the city’s best-known, anonymous street artists, who is also known as Hugo Gyrl. Painted in 2020 or before, the N. Claiborne Avenue mural by street artist You Go Girl began as an alluring apolitical design.   (Photo by Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) On Oct. 7, 2023, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) launched a surprise attack against Israel that cost the lives of almost 1,200 Israelis and others. Twenty days later, the Israeli army invaded the Palestinian territory of Gaza in a war against Hamas that has resulted in the deaths of approximately 41,000 to date. The ongoing war is just the latest clash in a seemingly continuous conflict between the factions. In the months since the war began, graffiti popped up here and there across the city, expressing sympathy with both the Palestinian and Israeli causes — though pro-Palestinian slogans seemed to predominate.   Sometime during the period, You Go Girl revised the...