French Jewish umbrella group denounces Paris exhibit glorifiying Palestinian terrorists as 'martyrs'
French Jewish umbrella representative group CRIF denounced a photo exhibition in Paris which they say glorifies Palestinian terrorism and was opened with the assistance of the city.
The exhibition on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict , titled “In Between Wars,” was set up by medical group ‘’Doctors without Borders’’. It opened last week at a cultural space that belongs to the Paris municipality.
CRIF President Roger Cukierman had asked in vain the municipality of Paris to deny its facilities for the exhibit.
The CRIF slammed the exposition in a statement, asserting it "can only augment anti-Semitic violence and the terrorist threat."
Cukierman wrote on Twitter: “We are crying still for 130 dead but for Doctors without Borders, terrorists are martyrs. Shocking.”
The exhibition features pictures and informational text. According to the text, the Israeli-Palestinian dispute began with Zionism’s “goal of creating a Jewish state in Palestine.” The term Zionism refers to the British Mandate of Palestine, but in France today is mostly used to designate the West Bank and Gaza.
Part of the exhibition focuses on a 26-year-old West Bank resident who has been incarcerated in an Israeli jail three times and whose brother is still imprisoned. His father also was jailed, as were all his uncles, one of them for life — a penalty that is usually given for murder. The text does not say why they were imprisoned but described Israeli jails as having “degrading, humiliating” conditions and torture.
One photo shows the Arabic-language poster of a Palestinian terrorist who died in an attack on Israelis; he is described as a martyr.
by Joseph Byron