Banksy hits the ‘Jungle’ at Calais with incredible Steve Jobs artwork

The British artist spray painted an image of Steve Jobs, the child of a Syrian refugee, on a wall in France’s infamous Calais refugee camp.

Image copyright Banksy Image caption Another unrelated graffiti reads: “Nobody deserves to live this way!”

Steve Jobs’ biological father is Abdulfattah John Jandali, born in Homs Syria, now aged 84 – and yes, still living and thriving in the United States of America.

The stunning stencil image shows Jobs, the son of Syrian migrants, dressed in his familiar black turtle neck, holding a bag full of possessions like a newly arrived refugee.

The point is not novel, since people have repeatedly referred to Jobs’ history when faced with the xenophobic response that has greeted waves of Syrian refugees trying to escape war in their country.

The actual Jobs story is not as neat as some might like in this case.

They were unmarried but, according to Jandali, they meant to marry when she fell pregnant at age 23. Once in the US, he met Jobs’ mother, Joanne Schieble, who then became pregnant in 1954.

In the face of sentiment overseas that countries should reject refugees from the ongoing conflict in Syria, the fact that Jobs was, in fact, the son of a Syrian migrant has struck a key with activists on the Internet.

He has also been shipping leftover parts from his Dismaland theme park that closed in September to help build housing for the 7,000 migrants that are living in Calais.

Another new work in Calais by the artist riffs on the famous “Raft of the Medusa” painting by Theodore Gericault – with a yacht inserted in the background.