Tolerance Monument

The Tolerance Monument is monument located in Jerusalem in a park of the same name near Goldman Promenade. The project was funded by Polish businessman Aleksander Gudzowaty as a symbol to promote peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [cite news |first=Greer Fay |last=Cashman |title=Grapevine: More than just an olive branch |url=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193324398&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |work=Jerusalem Post |date=2006-09-06 |accessdate=2007-04-11 ] . The monument is a work by famed sculptor Czesław Dźwigaj famous for his religious art in collaboration with sculptor Michal Kubiak. The monument is several meters tall, with the central concept revolving around the split column of a nameless temple reaching skywards. In its divided state the column looks like a tree trunk vertically torn asunder. Pushing its way up through the split is an olive tree whose branches reach up over the top of both parts of the column, with a small grain surrounded by a halo at the top. The monument is located in a park surrounded by grassland on which like-minded individuals and organizations can place plaques attesting to their endorsement of tolerance, situated on a hill marking the divide between Jewish Armon Hanatziv and Arab Jabal Mukaber, just outside the United Nations headquarters in Jerusalem's "Government House". [cite news |first=Greer Fay |last=Cashman |title=Monumental tolerance
url=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1159193336672&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |work=Jerusalem Post |date=2006-09-29 |accessdate=2007-04-11 ] . The choice of this site has become all the more poignant since an anti-Palestinian pogrom was instigated by radical right wing jewish Israelis in retaliation for the resident of Jabal Mukaber who was responsible for the terrorist attack on Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in March of 2007 [cite news |first=Editorial |last=Haaretz|title=Limp police in the face of a pogrom |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/965315.html|work=Haaretz date=2008-03-18 |accessdate=2008-03-18 ] .

References

ee also

*Center for Human Dignity
*Monument
*Tolerance

External links

* [http://www.aiq.co.il/images/sela_new/tolerance_monument.ppt/ a powerpoint presentation detailing Jerusalem's Tolerance Monument proposal]
* [http://www.jerusalemfoundation.org/news_article.aspx?MID=547&CID=558&AID=738&ID=2128 The Jerusalem Foundation highlighting the erection of the Tolerance Monument and Park]
* [http://www.znak.org.pl/files/wywiadAGen.doc Interview with Aleksander Gudzowaty regarding the Tolerance Monument]