Gabriel Meister spent 25 years as a transactional attorney, trained at Harvard Law, before October 7th cracked something open. Now, under the name Gabe Draws, he’s a core voice in the Hatikva Sticker Collective, printing stickers for a penny apiece and plastering them across New York City in what he calls a mimetic battle for public space.
In this episode of the Jewish futurism Lab, Mike Wirth sits down with Gabe to trace his path from a Dungeons and Dragons-obsessed kid in Baltimore drawn to Hebrew typography, through immunology research and a law career, to becoming one of the most visible street advocates in the post-October 7th Jewish arts movement. They dig into why Gabe refuses to debate hate on its own terms, how a thermal printer became a tool of bravery, and why he believes the future of Jewish futurism isn’t digital at all. It’s physical, ephemeral, and stuck to a lamppost near you.
My Socials, Blog Posts, and Designs
• x.com/gabedrawsx on X
• instagram.com/gabedraws on IG
• threads.com/gabedraws on Threads
• blogs.timesofisrael.com/
• stealthismeme.threadless.com for my primarily Judaism- and Israel-related designs
Stickers and Thermal Printing
• HatikvahCollective.net — website for the Hatikvah Collective, which gathers artists who emerged from international online Jewish spaces as a direct response to the Jewish national catastrophe of October 7th
• JCRNOW.com — the Jewish Civil Rights NOW sticker collection (i.e., the sticker’s I’ve created since 10/7)
• bit.ly/maazaction — stickers I’ve created for the Movement Against Antizionism
• And check out www.hatikvahcollective.net/
Anti-Antizionism Resources
• MovementAgainstAntizionism.org (Movement Against Antizionism)
• StopAZ.org (Stop Antizionism)
• ICSA.substack.com (The Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism’s Substack)
