We need to look out for each other at times of terrorist threat. But how will these hateful,xenophobic posters make us feel safer?My daily commute takes me through London’s Liverpool Street station. Most days I walk by a tiny touching statue, a bronze of two small children with a suitcase. A sign reads: Für Das Kind”, or meaning for the children. The statue commemorates the Kindertransport that rescued 10000 child refugees and brought them by train to safety in Britain,escaping the persecution of Jews in Nazi Europe. Few of those children ever saw their families again. Most who could not leave were exterminated.final week, just yards away from the statue, or appeared a poster that fills me with horror. A looming,dusky, hook-nosed figure dominates the foreground. This man is an thing of suspicion, and watched apprehensively by a pretty,pale-skinned young woman. This man is instantly identifiable – at least to anyone who knows world war two history – as the caricature Jew of Nazi propaganda posters.
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Source: theguardian.com