Showing posts with label Anti-Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anti-Israel. Show all posts
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Online edition of my book on the history of the Star of David
In 2008 I published in a private edition a book on the history of the Star of David, which was based on this blog (star of David album).Since then more material was added, so I found it necessary to release an updated online edition
In this format I can correct any mistake and continue to update
In this online edition, like in the printed book, each article appears exactly in its right place according to a chronological sequence of events - in difference from the blog where articles are organized by the date I uploaded them to the WWW
In this online edition, like in the printed book, each article appears exactly in its right place according to a chronological sequence of events - in difference from the blog where articles are organized by the date I uploaded them to the WWW
Under each picture there’s my Hebrew text in the comment section.I hope that enthusiast readers will add their language translations in the comment section, or send me the translation to my email address and I'll add it myself
The main novelty of this site is visual, because till now researchers didn’t publish pictures of such quality and such scope, and readers who wanted to see what the researchers relate to had to go to libraries to check each image separately
Here you can see each picture enlarged
Or see all the album as an automatic slide show
Or see the automatic slideshow with captions
Or see any picture on the entire screen with the option to navigate Next / Previous
Contents:
2500 BCE Sumerian
1700 BCE Minoan Seals
1200 BCE Karkom Israel
9th century BCE - Meggido Israel
7th century BCE, Sidon, Lebanon, Seal
4-1 century BCE Amulet
Third century C.E. -Ein Yael Roman Mosaic Floor
4th Century - Judeo Christian Synagogue Capernaum, Israel-1
Third Century C.E. - Roman Mosaic Floor, Lod, Israel
8th century- King Offa Coin, England
9th Century - Muslim Coin
10th Century Cairo Genizah
11th Century - Codex Leningrad-3
12th Century Ethiopia Lalibela
13th century- Synagoge Statue Bamberg Hexagram
13th Century - Cosmatesque Style
13th Century - Brewer's Star
1367 - Alcobaca Monastery Portugal
1394 - First Mention of Psalms 67 as Star of David
14th Century Jewish Manuscript
15th Century? -Synagogue, Spain
1531 Celestial Alphabet
c 15th Century Tarot Card
15th century, Kennicott Bible, Spain
c. 16th Century - Muslim Tombstone
16th Century Seder Plate
1538- on the Walls of the Old City in Jerusalem
1540 - Prague Flag (Red flag on the right)
16th century Foah Family Print Mark
1613 David Ganz tombstone in Prague
16-19 Century - Mughal, Rajasthan, India
1659- Alchemy
18th century Jonathan Eibenschütz's Amulet
18th century Jewish Chuppa Stone from Wurzburg
1782 - Great Seal of the United States
1870 - Mizrach with Lions
19th Century Free Masons Tombstone
1863 Church Facade, Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
1897- Theodor Herzl's newspaper, Die Welt.
1905- Protocols of the Elders of Zion
1914 - Messiah House, Jerusalem
1921 - Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption
1930 - rastafarians
1939 -Yellow Badge, Holocaust
1948 - Israeli Flag
c 1960 Anti Israel Arab Propaganda.
2001-Jewish Museum Berlin / Holocaust Remembrence
2009 - Long Live Israel Graffiti
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
Latuff, Stretcher
Star of David stretcher
Star of David made from clubs that the Israeli soldiers use to hit Palestinians.
Courtesy of Brazilian anti-Israeli cartoonist Carlos Latuff
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Carlos Latuff, Jew Guevara
Photo of Star of David on the famous cap of South-American legendary revolutionist Che Guevara is courtesy of Brazilian anti-Israeli cartoonist Carlos Latuff who comments on his website that he made it:
On behalf of brave Jews, in Israel and worldwide, and their struggle against Israeli oppression of Palestinian people and occupation of their territories
Attaching a Star of David to a famous leader was used by WW2 German propaganda to deliver quite an opposite message: that the famous leader (i.e. Roosevelt) is a puppet of “the Jews”.
On behalf of brave Jews, in Israel and worldwide, and their struggle against Israeli oppression of Palestinian people and occupation of their territories
Attaching a Star of David to a famous leader was used by WW2 German propaganda to deliver quite an opposite message: that the famous leader (i.e. Roosevelt) is a puppet of “the Jews”.
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Carlos Latuff, Barbed Wire Star
Israeli Apartheid jewish star
Title:Israeli Apartheid
This is the first photo of a Barbed Wire Star of David published on this blog. Picture is courtesy of cartoonist Carlos Latuff. Concerning the Star of David itself it denies access, in this case, from the other side as well. It’s the deep meaning of this symbol not to take sides, or to take both sides.
From Wikipedia: Carlos Latuff is a freelance political cartoonist, born in November 30, 1968, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil… Latuff has authored several comics about Middle East situations such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iraq War, mainly highly critical towards Israel and the United States while sympathizing with their opposition… in 2004, Latuff has made a series of seven cartoons, called Forgiveness, showing Arabs and Jews illustrated in reconciliation.
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Carlos Latuff, Watch Tower
Carlos Latuff, Watch Tower jewish starPhoto is courtesy of Brazilian anti-Israeli cartoonist Carlos Latuff who has a very special way of seeing the Star of David – he looks at it as the shape of a Watch Tower. This is a unique simile, to the best of my knowledge. It reminds me of the Star Fort of Matara in Sri-Lanka.
Title: Shame Wall (Israhell)
Artist's Comments:
Israeli Wall To Encircle Palestine. Sharon accused of turning territories into huge prison; Chris McGreal in Jerusalem; Tuesday March 18, 2003; The Guardian.
Title: Shame Wall (Israhell)
Artist's Comments:
Israeli Wall To Encircle Palestine. Sharon accused of turning territories into huge prison; Chris McGreal in Jerusalem; Tuesday March 18, 2003; The Guardian.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Carlos Latuff , Hanging Rope
Israeli Star of David as a hanging rope
Israeli Star of David as a hanging rope
for the Palestinians conveys bluntly cartoonist Carlos Latuff’s opinion about Israel’s policy in the territories. His image reminds me of a similar image Israeli artist Dror Auslander used to show how Israelis strangle their foreign workers.
Another Star of Davids made from rope is on the
scouts stamp
Cartoonist Carlos Latuff uses the Star of David as an anti- Israeli tool. It is important to notice the difference between anti- Israeli (or anti-Zionist) and anti-Semitic usages. Latuff is a fine example for the first category.
It is to his credit that
- He made in 2004 a series of seven cartoons showing Arabs and Jews in reconciliation
- on his websites he allows everybody to reproduce and forward all his artworks.
P.S.
Mr. Latuff read this post and commented:
Dear sir,
Checking your post about one of my cartoons with the Star of
David depicted as a hanging rope, I'd like to highlight
something. As you stated in the same post, my artworks and
struggle have more to do with anti-Zionism than
anti-Semitism, and the usage of Star of David in my cartoons
have no religious reasons. My detractors usually acuse me of
anti-Semitism for using the Star. The point is that the
State of Israel have religious motifs as national symbols
(Star of David for the flag, the Menorah for the official
seal), and even combat jets and tanks have the Star of David on it (putting a religious symbol in such war machines sounds like a desecration for me). It's
like to be called anti-Muslim for making a Turkish tank with
the Star and Crescent, since this religious motif is used in
the Turkey's national flag.
Best regards,
Latuff
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Friday, September 28, 2007
Iranian Cartoon The Seed of Zionism
There's an anti-Semitic Iranian YouTube TV cartoon showing a Jewish Rabbi planting a Nazi swastika, watering it and watching it grow into the Star of David. What makes the the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism (or anti-Israel) is the Rabbi, which automatically jumps the religious connotation.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Anti-Semitism and Zionism
Photo of Stars of David on Anti-Israel demonstration signs is courtesy of "El Marco" who published it on Flickr under the title
God Will Send Mushroom Cloud on Israel
There’s an interesting connection between Anti-Semitism and Zionism- they trigger each other:
Herzl started his Zionist activity as a direct result of Dreifus Affair, which he covered as a journalist. On the other hand The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion started as a result of the first Zionist congress in Bazel. (Which is mentioned in the last chapter there).
It is a known estimation that the state of Israel was founded as an answer to anti- Semitism in general and to the Holocaust in particular.
This connection between Anti-Semitism and Zionism goes back to the days of Pharaoh and the overwhelming answer to Anti-Semitism is supplied already there:
Exodus 1:12
But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread…
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Monday, May 01, 2006
Anti-Semitism test
Ronny Naftaniel wrote an article about the "Report of Anti-Semitic Incidents in the Netherlands for 2002 and January-May 2003" and in it he quotes Peter Pulzer, former Professor of Political Science and Modern History at the Oxford University, who suggested a test to check whether a certain statement is a legitimate criticism or an anti-Semite criticism. Among the questions one has to answer in this test is the following:
Does the artist or television producer use the Star of David to identify Israeli military equipment?
Ronny Naftaniel adds:
This happened at the anti-Israel demonstration in Amsterdam on 13 April 2002. Some of the ca. 15,000 demonstrators compared Sharon to Hitler and equated the Star of David with swastikas.
My general impression after intensive reading about Stars of David is that we are dealing here with a symbol that is so powerful that there are millions of people who love it with all their hearts while other millions hate it with all their hearts. This dualism is the main theme in the design of this emblem: one triangle pointing straight to the skies (love) while the other is pointing straight to hell (hate). These twins accompany mankind from the dawn of history and I don't expect the sudden disappearance of any of them.
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