The celebrated artist/author of Maus, a graphic novel about Spiegelman's father's experience with the Holocaust, has created a collage for The Nation and made a statement about Israel.
The collage has two images -- one with a small David ready to take on the large and threatening Goliath, and then an image in which the same threatening Goliath is much smaller than David.
Spiegelman who apparently has been silent until now on the Israel and Palestine conflict said this on his Facebook page where he displayed the collage:
I've spent a lifetime trying to NOT think about Israel—deciding it has nothin more to do with me, a diasporist, than the rest of the World's Bad News on Parade. Israel is like some badly battered child with PTSD who has grown up to batter others.
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There is definitely a shift in the American Jewish community with many more of us speaking openly about our opposition to and disgust with the Israeli occupation. The recent horrific shelling of Gaza has broken through the reluctance many people have to openly criticize Israel. Hamas' awful grip on Gaza does not justify the killing of so many innocents.
And the existence of Hamas doesn't explain why a decade of West Bank Palestinian peace and peaceful protests has resulted only in expansion of Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands.