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ETWolverine |
11/19/04 |
Palestinian 'Art' Exhibit
A New York public facility hosts a fundraiser for an art exhibit that vilifies Israelis and extols suicide bombers.
This Saturday (Nov. 20), a fundraiser will be held at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, New York, raising money to bring a Palestinian art exhibit to the New York metro area. Here's one of the paintings from the proposed exhibit (previously shown in Houston, TX), portraying Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon collecting and boiling a young Palestinian's blood:
The painting rehashes the historic anti-Semitic blood libel, with Sharon as sadistic torturer and the United States his accomplice.
Suicide bombers are also praised in the 'art' exhibit ¯ the official introduction explains that
[t]o several of the artists, the subject of the martyrs is an all-important topic. A true martyr is anyone who gives his life in service of his people, including... suicide bombers that attack Israeli civilians.
One of the works 'pay[s] homage to the first 13 martyrs in the current uprising.'
Though two state legislators and local Jewish groups urged Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano to cancel the fundraiser ¯ which will be held in a public building ¯ Spano has decided to allow Saturday's event to take place.
In the (NY) Journal-News, the protesting legislators clarify that
this isn't about free speech - it's about whether to allow [the fundraiser] on county property. Spano has banned gun shows from the County Center because he opposes such a use of the space, they argue, and he should exert the same discretion here.
Comments to Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano: click here (Please remember that polite criticism is far more effective.)
2) Earlier this week, municipal signs of the town of Oleiros in northern Spain flashed the public message 'Let's stop the animal!!! Sharon the assassin, stop the neo-Nazis':
In response to strong protest from the Israeli Foreign Minister among others, the mayor of Oleiros, who at first defended the signs, agreed to remove them.
This episode may indicate that anti-Israel hysteria, exacerbated by the European media, has reached a new fever pitch on the Continent.
HonestReporting
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For the full story with pictures go to http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Palestinian_Art_Exhibit.asp
Is anti-semitism growing? Is it bcoming more prolific? Has it gotten to such a point that elected and appointed officials both in the USA and abroad will allow it to happen?
Elliot |
Clarification/Follow-up by SanchoPanza on 11/21/04 5:11 am:
Critique of the actions of a state are not indicative of a hatred of the state's nationals.
Anyone who approaches issues in that way probably has underlying racist tendencies themselves. Clarification/Follow-up by ETWolverine on 11/22/04 8:42 am:
Sancho,
So the actions of a government are not to be interpreted as the feelings of the people?
What ever happened to the idea that governments only rule with the consent of the people? If the people really felt otherwise, don't you think that they would make those feelings known?
Not to mention that the 'art' exhibit is a PRIVATELY FUNDED exhibit... meaning that it IS the feelings of the individuals. My criticism is with the public facility and the public officials who are allowing the exhibit to be shown in a public venue. That is CLEARLY a case of government officials going along with the anti-Semitic feelings of private individuals.
And what of the untold numbers of anti-semitic incidents in Europe that have been taking place over the past several years that were not government-related? Those aren't indicative of growing anti-Semitism in Europe?
Get real, Sancho.
Elliot
Clarification/Follow-up by SanchoPanza on 11/22/04 2:17 pm:
Try reading what I said again.
Critique of the actions of a government (i.e. Israel) are not indicative of a hatred of the state's people (i.e. Jews)
I abhor both the actions of Israel and the likes of Hammas. I abhor the actions of Bush and I abhor Blair for giving him so much support. I abhor the IRA nearly as much as I do the Ulster Unionists.
Does that make me a serial racist or just someone who cannot accept the intolerance of others?
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