Outside Yad Vashem
Visiting Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial for the victims of the Holocaust, left me feeling pensive, sad and worried. How could this happen, could it happen again? Other visitors seem to feel this way too, you can see it in their body language as they sit outside the entrance waiting for their rides. Their heads are down and they seem to be looking inward to their own thoughts.
You have to worry when the news is full of politicians using bigotry as an election tool. We are seeing blatant manipulation. The blaming of victims, encouragement of physical and psychological abuse of minorities, proposals for ethnic expulsion, pledges to change laws that protect rights and citizenship, and use of nationalism to justify it all brought Hitler into power. It has all been done before and the playbook for it is in our museums.
This is a pencil, pen and watercolor sketch.
It is something I remember, but wish I forgot as it is so painful. You are correct in the mood caught in your sketch. They look like the visitors did after seeing Anne Frank’s house. I saw the same expressions at the opening night crew party for the the HS play of Anne Frank in 1964. Remember we must!
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My Dear Sally,
If you are referring to Trump, there is a much more imminent (i.e. happening before your eyes right now – down the street from you) reason to worry. None of our current politicians running for president are responsible for this nor will they ever be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict_(2015%E2%80%93present)
Hope you guys are enjoying your time thus far and staying away from the above “mishegas”!
Love,
Bob
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Bev, it is is so interesting that you saw similar responses, thank you so much for sharing it.
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I should have also added the other imminent threat to Jews – the rampant hatred and antisemitism going on daily at colleges across the country, particularly in the UC and CSU systems:
http://www.amchainitiative.org/
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Politics aside – I LOVE YOUR SKETCHES!
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
THE SPIRITS OF THOSE KILLED OR DYING…REJECTED BY THOSE FOOLS WHO REFUSE TO SEE THEM .
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