Fury as Labour council promotes grotesque ‘antisemitic’ art exhibition | Politics | News
One of the images on display (Image: -) A Labour-run council is promoting a “grotesque” art display which critics say uses antisemitic images in the guise of supporting the Palestinians. Campaigners insisted Thanet District Council must apologise after promoting the exhibition by artist Matthew Collings, which features images of Israelis as demons with blood spewing out of their mouths, and shows a pro-Israel “lobby” hypnotising the world The exhibition is labelled “Drawings Against Genocide” and Thanet District Council is promoting the show, at Joseph Wales Studio in Margate, on the Visit Thanet website, which is run by the authority’s tourism and culture team. A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “These images are grotesque. This isn’t art but incitement, drawing on classic tropes. “Modern art is often as much, if not more, about the inner feelings of the artist than about the subject, and here the artist’s inner feelings about Jews and the Jewish state are all too clear.” READ MORE: Alarming university study finds 20% of students don’t want a Jewish housemate “It’s a …
