Swedish museum to remove suicide bomber posters

AP/Haaretz ^ | 01-21-04 | Staff

[veronica]

STOCKHOLM - A Swedish museum official said Tuesday that he will remove posters for an art exhibition that sparked a diplomatic spat with Israel, but said the display at the root of the controversy will remain.

The man in charge of the exhibition at the Museum of National Antiquities said he will take down posters showing a Palestinian suicide bomber that were posted in 26 subway stations throughout Stockholm to advertise the exhibit.

"This is a personal decision where I as an artistic leader take full responsibility of removing and replacing the posters," Thomas Nordanstad said.

Israeli Ambassador Zvi Mazel on Friday vandalized an art installation that featured a portrait of Jihad suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat. She killed herself and 21 bystanders in an October 4 suicide bombing in Haifa.

Mazel said the display, made by Israeli-born artist Dror Feiler, glorified suicide bombers.

Museum officials said the exhibit will go on and the Swedish government declined to interfere, saying it doesn't control the country's museums.

The museum has set up 130 posters advertising the exhibition, but only those carrying the image of Jaradat, will be removed and replaced with another image from the exhibition, Nordanstad said. He didn't say what the replacement image would be.

[veronica]

How "enlightened" of them....

[SJackson]

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[Cicero]

Until the past few years, the new leftist antisemitism had been relatively subtle. Since 9/11, for whatever reason, the academic leftists and political socialists have been getting more and more outspoken in their hatred of Israel and, yes, Jews.

They already had models for such fierce and open bigotry in anticatholicism and Christian-bashing. But now they are getting uneasy with the charge of antisemitism and find it necessary to back off a little. Heavens forbid that they should cancel the art exhibit--not that they would hesitate for an instant to cancel a politically incorrect art exhibit showing Hitler, for instance. But they will lower the profile by removing the public posters.

What slimy hypocrites.

[Alouette]

not that they would hesitate for an instant to cancel a politically incorrect art exhibit showing Hitler Jesus, for instance.

I think they would probably allow an "art exhibit" favoring Hitler.

[rrrod]

its time to remove sweden ...............

[lilylangtree]

About time. Mazel did a good thing. When I think of Sweden, I think of Christine Jorgensen--Sweden's gift to the world.

[Ringman]

I saw them on the subway tuesday morning... even if the actual exhibit could be interpreted as "neutral" the poster is really over the top.

[Salem]

"I saw them on the subway tuesday morning... even if the actual exhibit could be interpreted as "neutral" the poster is really over the top."

Over the top indeed! Are these people out of their ever-lovin' minds?!

Ringman has the posters linked here.

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[crazycat]

Just ask the Norwegians about Hitler and the Swedes.

When the Germans wanted to cross Sweden by train to get at the Norwegians, it was a case of will first class be all right Sir........

Some Swedes have short memories.

[MetalHeadConservative35]

its time to remove sweden ...............

no!!! there metal scene ROCKS!!!!! remove the govt though

[detsaoT]

Israeli Ambassador Zvi Mazel on Friday vandalized an art installation that featured a portrait of Jihad suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat.

Is this for real? Not a bad translation? That'd be funny as heck if this is actually what he did.

:) ttt

[Mr.Atos]

It is clear that Europeans can increasingly be qualified by one descriptive term...

...Puppets.

Atos

[Ciexyz]

You can't convince me that the museum board/planning committee isn't pushing a viral, hate-filled anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian homicide bomber agenda. The size of the poster was effin' unbelievable!

[American in Israel]

The media also reported that the restaurant she bombed was an Arab restaurant. It was a Christian one. They did not like the visual picture of Islamics bombing Christian restaurants to kill both Jews and Christians.

They liked the equal opportunity killing picture better, so they told the story their way.

That is the problem, they tell their story, not what is actually happening. How is anyone to figure what is actually happening if they are just making it up as they go?