Stockholm – Organizers of a Christian art exhibit in Sweden have a withdrawn a drawing that Jewish groups said was anti-Semitic.
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The drawing by two Swedish pastors showed three rats — one of which carried a rifle — eating what appears to be a map of the Palestinian territories.
The image sparked protests even before the exhibit’s opening Friday in a Stockholm church, including from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which said it depicted Jews as rats.
Bilda, the Christian study center that organized the exhibit, apologized for the “mistake” and said the intention of the drawing was to “describe how all sides in a conflict are losers.”
Bilda spokesman Magnus Stenberg told AP the image was withdrawn from the exhibit and from the group’s website once organizers realized it was being perceived as anti-Semitic.
It’s amazing how no-one “realizes” their “mistakes” and complicity in overtly anti-semitic acts until there are protests. They are, however, very well-tuned, and quite sensitive, to percieved so-called anti-muslim “discrimination”. This, especially in Europe.
So instead of it being in the gallery, it’s plastered all over the internet. What a great strategy!
And yet, the same Jews who decried this had no trouble at all defending the Danish artists in the Mohammed cartoons. I guess it all depends on whose ox is being gored.
I don’t get it. Who is going to recognize this as the “Palestinian Territories”? That’s not the map they are using (which includes the entire area of Israel)