A new low. From the JC – Labour council promotes exhibition showing ‘Jews’ eating babies:
Drawings at an art gallery in Thanet in Kent have been accused of featuring imagery that is antisemitic and Israel’s representative to the UK has called for the authorities to intervene.
JC writer and Telegraph columnist Zoe Strimpel posted on social media following her visit to Matthew Collings’ Drawings Against Genocide at the Joseph Wales Studios in Margate that she was “shocked by the use of Nazi imagery – the room is full of the Star of David pasted around figures meant to be Israelis and the Jewish ‘lobby’ spewing blood”.
Images in the exhibition include one of a smiling IDF soldier, with a Star of David in between their legs, standing over what appear to be a pool of blood and a human skull. The caption “New order forever now” featured several more skulls and a pool of blood.
A different image cast doubt on Hamas’ sexual violence against Israelis on October 7, saying prominently: “No evidence that sexual violence was used on October 7”, despite testimony from survivors and a report by the Dinah project, partly funded by the British government, found that it was “widespread and systematic”, with gang rape occurring in at least six separate locations in southern Israel.
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Israel’s charge d’affairs to the United Kingdom Daniela Grudsky commented: “This isn’t art. It isn’t free speech. It’s antisemitism – crude, aggressive, and completely indefensible. It should be treated with the full seriousness of the law.”
The CST’s Dave Rich shared Strimpel’s post and commented: “These are the kind of wild antisemitic scrawls that used to only show up in hate mail incidents. Nowadays you can get an art exhibition out of it.”
It’s grotesque. The artist, Matthew Collings, would appear to be seriously disturbed. These scrawls are at the extreme end of the antisemitic spectrum, yet Thanet’s Labour council are happy to put it all on display, and publicise it.
More at the Telegraph.
Mick Hartley 
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