Sharp poster - police brutality against the Charedi community. Israel, 1972

Poster with photos depicting Israeli policemen brutally hitting demonstrating yeshiva students and difficult scenes from charedi demonstrations. Without name of printer. Printed for dissemination amongst the Jews in the Diaspora to disclose the injustices perpetrated against the Charedi community in Israel. Start of the 1970s.

The compartmentalized poster features various pictures of uniformed policemen hitting yeshiva students with batons; spraying water on demonstrators; imprisoned yeshiva students; garbage cans burning in Meah Shearim; pictures of demonstraters holding signs decrying police commissioner Shlomo Hillel who relates to Charedim like terrorists and more.

Each photo is accompanied by an English caption: "Israel police in Meah Shearim dragging an unconscious yeshiva student"; "Detective Barzel (with yarmulke) and associate overpowering a yeshiva student"; Yisroel Bernat and Shmuel Weisenstern are led in chains to prison."

The poster includes quotes from Israeli newspapers (Panim el Panim, Yediot Achronot) describing the disproportionate use of police force against the demonstrating yeshiva students [termed anti-Semitism in a number of places] and the fact that they were imprisoned merely to break their spirit and not for sufficient reasons. 

Two leaves with print on both their sides [4 pages], 40x58 cm. Fold marks. Stains. Tears.

Moderate condition.