שייח' ג'ראח ושמעון הצדיק

Caricature – Sheikh Jarrah

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O residents of Al-Quds... do not leave the Archers' Mount (Rumat) The drawing depicts an armed man with a slingshot wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh, next to him his wife, and to the side their son, who also holds a slingshot and wears a keffiyeh. They are standing on a hill relatively higher than the city of Jerusalem, bearing a sign: Sheikh Jarrah Neighborhood. To the right, standing lower, is the Golden Dome, which in Palestinian nationalism represents Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque. The drawing is based on a story in which Muhammad fights the non-believers and positions archers (in the drawing, the bow has been replaced by a slingshot) on a high hill on the flank of the battlefield, instructing them to stay on the hill even after victory and not to go down to take spoil. After the victory, the archers descended to gather plunder, whereupon the non-believers rallied and struck the Muslim army. The message conveyed by the drawing: Anyone who yields to compensation money or accepts court compromises and takes money is like that archer in battle who left his post to gather money, thereby abandoning the rest of the fighters—in the drawing before us, abandoning the Muslim struggle for Jerusalem. Published on May 23, 2021.