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Published on 3 January 2016
French Jewish communities slam new photo exhibit for inciting Palestinian terror
Published on I24 News December 29, 2015
Jewish communities in France say that a new photo exhibit by medical group Doctors Without Borders featuring pictures and text about the Israel-Palestinian conflict glorifies Palestinian terrorism, in addition to incomplete information.
Roger Cukierman, President of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF), requested that the city of Paris deny the group use of municipal facilities to host the exhibition, writing in a statement that the exhibit "can only augment anti-Semitic violence and the terrorist threat."
Nonetheless, Haaretz reports that the exhibit, entitled 'In Between Wars' opened on December 23 at Paris' Maison des Métallos, a government-funded cultural space.
"We are crying still for 130 dead but for Doctors without Borders, terrorist are martyrs. Shocking," Cukierman wrote on his personal Twitter account, referencing the November 30 terror attacks in Paris which killed 130 people... Read more.