Zionist thug attacks peace art.

international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report

Sunday January 18, 2004 21:04

by David C.

Israeli government officials praise vandalism

Israel's ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel, violently expressed his rage at an attempt by Jewish Israeli artist Dror Feiler to explore understanding of the reactions of Palestinians to Israeli occupation and ongoing colonization of their land.

A work of art by Jewish Israeli artist Dror Feiler, located in the courtyard of Stockholm's Museum of National Antiquities, was physically attacked Saturday by Israel's ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel. The artwork, titled 'Snow White and the Madness of Truth', displayed a picture of Hanadi Jaradat, the 29-year-old Palestinian lawyer and mother of two who blew herself up in the Haifa suicide bombing in October which killed 21 Israelis. Apparently enraged at any attempt to ask *why* a successful, educated young mother such as Jaradat would attack Israelis, the ambassador ripped out electrical wires, grabbed a spotlight and hurled it into a fountain. He then verbally attacked the artist, declaring him to be 'anti-semitic' and that he was ashamed that Feiler was a Jew. Feiler said. 'We see this as an offensive assault on our right to express our thoughts and feelings. Mazel tried to stop free speech and free artistic expression from being carried out in Sweden.'

The attack happened at the opening of Making Differences, held as part of an upcoming international conference on genocide. Israeli foreign ministry spokesman David Saranga said that the exhibit broke an understanding that the scope of the conference would not include the ongoing Israeli colonization of Palestinian land. The existence of such an agreement regarding a conference on genocide is strange, as many of the inhabitants of Israel have been both victims and perpetrators of genocide.

Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and other members of the Israeli government praised the attack on Sunday. Ambassador Mazel and Prime Minister Sharon apparently remain unaware of their own inadvertent contribution to the impact of Feiler's art in revealing the truth about Israel's actions against the Palestinian people in the occupied territories.