--- title: The Story Behind TIME's 'Beyond Hate' Cover description: In Edel Rodriguez's cover illustration, there are 13 fallen stars. One star remains on the tree. 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Nov 1, 2018 10:34 AM UTC When TIME and the artist JR launched our interactive cover-mural project, [Guns in America](http://time.com/longform/guns-america/), on Oct. 25, we could not have predicted the depth of tragedy in the hours to come. The cover was meant, as JR and I put it during a discussion of the project at New York City’s Pace Gallery that evening, to be the beginning of a conversation. Barely 36 hours later, in the third massacre in an American house of worship since 2015, a gunman reportedly shouting “All Jews must die” fired into a crowd at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh with an AR-15-style rifle and three handguns. That same weekend, in a haunting protest and memorial, someone painted a blood red “11”–the number of Pittsburgh dead–over a [giant version of the mural that JR and his team had pasted on a wall in Manhattan’s Lower East Side](https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/a-provocative-new-mural-on-bowery-examines-gun-violence-in-america-103118), home to generations of Jewish immigrants. Rose petals were strewn across the foot of the canvas. It was, JR said, a “conversation on the wall.”  A red spray painted number 11, an apparent reference to the individuals slain in Pittsburgh, is seen on the "Guns in America" mural created by TIME and the artist JR on the Houston Bowery Wall in New York City. Andres Kudacki for TIME The roots of the tree of life–a mystical Jewish image so powerfully rendered by the artist Edel Rodriguez on our cover this week–run deep in America. “Everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid,” George Washington wrote, quoting the Bible, in his famous letter to the Jews of Newport, R.I. (lyrics now familiar to everyone who has heard the music to Hamilton). An unforgettable memory from my own childhood: Friday nights with my grandparents–German immigrants who cherished their American identity–as a rabbi recited the prayer Grant Us Peace, a loose translation of the Hebrew “Shalom Rav,” an organist quietly tapping the melody to “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.” How terribly sad to witness the present vitriol. This is the [second time in 14 months](http://time.com/4903680/edel-rodriguez-time-cover/) that TIME has dedicated an issue to the eruption of hate in America, and also the second time we have turned to Edel to capture it on our cover. This time, it follows what may be the largest attempted assassination of political leaders in American history and the murders of two African Americans in Jeffersontown, Ky., at the hands of a gunman who, police say, first tried to enter a church but found it locked, and the massacre of the 11 Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh. In Edel’s cover illustration, they are 13 fallen stars. One star remains on the tree. Hope. Shalom Rav.  Illustrations by Edel Rodriguez for TIME **Read the rest of the Beyond Hate special report:** [The Only Way to Fight Hate](http://time.com/5441420/gibbs-beyond-hate/) _by Nancy Gibbs_ [The Meaning of Matthew Shepard](http://time.com/5440651/matthew-shepard-pittsburgh-synagogue/) _by Katie Couric_ [The Reasons Why Right-Wing Terror Is Rising in America](http://time.com/5438443/tree-of-life-attack/) _by Daniel Benjamin_ [My Sister Was Killed in Emanuel Church. Now I Know Our Hate Problem Is Bigger Than Our Gun Problem](http://time.com/5441476/graham-beyond-hate/) _by Malcolm Graham_ [Politicians Can’t Stop Hate — We Must Change America Ourselves](http://time.com/5441480/glaude-beyond-hate/) _by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr._ [A Leader Should Appeal to Their People’s Best Instincts. Donald Trump Appeals to the Worst](http://time.com/5441481/meacham-beyond-hate/) _by Jon Meacham_ [3 Lessons About Anti-Semitism We Should Learn From the Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack](http://time.com/5438424/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-anti-semitism/) _by Deborah Lipstadt_ [Guns in America: 12 Participants From TIME Cover React to Pittsburgh Shooting and Mural Spray Painting](http://time.com/5441701/guns-in-america-reactions-pittsburgh/) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] I grew up in Cuba in a small town. [ MUSIC ] I think my past is always in my work in one way or another. In Cuba, you'll see a bright red car, a Chevy, and say another Ford drive by in cerulean blue and then the yellow house behind it So if you look at my work, it's in very intense colors. [ MUSIC ] Why I work in news and political art Why do people wake up in the morning and [ LAUGH ] drink juice, or why do you drink water? To me, it's normal, it's what I've lived with my entire life. I think every artist has something that they wake up to and that inspires them and gets them going. I wake up [ LAUGH ] to read what the news is. I think it is that idea that I always feel someone is being victimized, someone is being taken advantage of and I feel like I need to speak about that. [ MUSIC ] A lot of people say, what's the purpose, why am I gonna make posters, [ UNKNOWN ], it's not gonna change anyone's mind And that's not why I make art. [ UNKNOWN ] mind, it's this to say hey, this is wrong. Someone who was there saying this was wrong, we have proof, we have a [ UNKNOWN ], we have something that you can look at going. Not everyone was with this, you just stand up for what's correct and what we feel is right, you put it out there, you let people learn from it And maybe takes 10 years or 20 years for people to understand what you were talking about, but it's important to do it. 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