We've been down this road before with the so-called banker cartoons, distinct and insulting caricatures of Jewish men depicted getting rich with their feet on supposed ground down subjugated workers. Now here we are again, how is it even allowed? Jews, or Zionists if you prefer, are represented in the most racist and anti semitic way possible. For instance, the Jewish owner of Southeby's eating a baby, next to the words "Hey look I'm selling a fantastic painting while eating a baby alive"
At a time of a resurgence of unfettered prejudice against our Jewish community, always in the firing line and collectively targeted for all the ills the Israeli government has inflicted on Gaza, this timely exhibition, "Drawings Against Genocide" arrives at the gallery almost simultaneously with the Golders Green attack. Unbelievable hate filled tropes that have been passed down through history time again and again. Would it be tolerated against any other demographic? for example, different genocides, such as the one going on in Sudan, the rage level for those other atrocities where are they? and how would the supporters of this exhibition react if the perpetrators of similar acts of ethnic cleansing/genocide were cast in such a way to slur an entire race or ethnicity?
*Thread title edited by GNHQ to reflect the fact the exhibition is not at the Tate gallery*
*Attacks on ambulances?
Posters were somehow trying to justify those too*
Please direct me to the posts which seek to justify attacking ambulances.
Thanks
Sounds like he's the one having the hysterical rant, just as much as the media and others he criticises. Of course its antisemitism, couched in the very loose definition of a piece of Art. My foot!
Artworks inciting hatred of Jews are universal and have been around since medieval times. They are particularly present in Germany, France and the UK. The same sculpture I mentioned was 16th century. Its too convenient to say the painting is just a depiction of the current situation.
I just question our ability to really question the show as a whole unless we have actually seen it or have online access to all the pictures.
I remain feeling strongly that any that are in themselves are clearly anti semitic should be removed but there is a whole history of political art that is not always comfortable and people have a right to make it.
*However I repeat and hope this is heard. Absolutely remove any pictures that are hate crime. That does not automatically mean the whole exhibition should be closed.
Kent police are not necessarily the fools some here would have them be.
Sentiment whipped up by the Telegraph in the basis of 1 to 3 images was what started this thread off, and they even got the venue wrong in the title.
We need more information not bandwagon jumping.
Not forgetting 1,195 Israelis killed in October 7th attacks including 36 children.
Definitely antisemitism
You can justify how you feel about it Graphite.
Coupled with Collings's views posted online, you can call it what you like but this is anti-semitism.
Attacks on ambulances?
Posters were somehow trying to justify those too.
It is scary.
The Star of David is also on the flag of Israel in pictures with IDF soldiers, skulls, bombs and blood.
The war on Gaza has seen the slaughter of 80,000 people, 80% of whom were civilians, 70% of those women and children, 90% of the Gaza population displaced from their homes, over 2 million people facing high levels of acute food insecurity and catastrophic famine conditions.
We can all interpret art in different ways. I see those images as a criticism of the warmongering of Israel. You interpret it differently. I doubt we shall agree.
Graphite do you also agree with MC's endorsement of the sentiment that Hamas have done nothing wrong? That the 7/10 rapes, murders and kidnappings weren't wrong?
By their words and actions antisemites reveal themselves even as they say they aren't. If Tommy Robinson declares himself to not be racist will you believe him too?
GrannyGravy13
Not antisemitism but art! really Graphite of course it’s antisemitism, and unfortunately it is growing in the U.K. to the point of being acceptable to put on this show
(I refuse to call it art as it is far removed from the arts)
That is the problem, when anti-Netanyahu and Israeli Government actions become confused with anti-Jewish rhetoric, actions and scribbles like these so-called drawings.
Anti-semitism creeps in and slowly becomes acceptable because people confuse the two.
District councils do have powers to close down highly offensive art exhibitions in conjunction with the police.
Chocolatelovinggran
Oreo, did you read my post? I repeat:
this exhibition is in a private gallery.
Thanet District Council will not have been either consulted, nor informed about it.
It may, indeed, be a police matter if it has been referred to them.
Just looked it up.
It looks a bit of a dump.
The man is a self confessed Hamas supporter, no further explanation needed…
Not antisemitism but art! really Graphite of course it’s antisemitism, and unfortunately it is growing in the U.K. to the point of being acceptable to put on this show
(I refuse to call it art as it is far removed from the arts)
Oreo, did you read my post? I repeat:
this exhibition is in a private gallery.
Thanet District Council will not have been either consulted, nor informed about it.
It may, indeed, be a police matter if it has been referred to them.
To be clear, MC reshared a post on X
I don’t want peace with Israel. I want Israel gone. There is no peace with genocidal maniacs. No two state solution. It’s one state and it’s called Palestine. I am not a Hamas ‘apologist’ they have done nothing to apologise for.
Art school nutter.
He can claim what he wants, Graphite.
The images, with the Star of David, are anti-semitic.
And if you read what Collings said you will see that he has made it plain that his art is a protest against war and genocide not against the Jewish faith.
One is allowed to criticise the belligerent actions of a state, particulary one which is doing its utmost at the moment to start another world war. We have had umpteen threads about Israel in that regard. He is just doing the same through his art.
Surely the far-right, fascism, is known for its anti-semitism? We all know about the Battle of Cable Street when ordinary people stopped the march of Misley's BUF.
You said you joined the march in London on Saturday, Graphite, against the rise of far-right extremism. How do you equate that with your support of this "artist" and his vile anti-semitic drawings?
Netanyahu and his wars do not represent Jewish people around the world, nor indeed all Israelis.
MC is known for his Hamas support on social media sites.
Graphite
Where is your proof of that ronib?
How is stirring up more hatred helping anyone?
Where is your proof of that ronib?
Since when has an artist gained God status? MC is a Hamas supporter and is not to be believed, not to be given oxygen.
Israel is allowed to exist despite the ramblings of a very inadequate artist. MC is not helping Palestinians at all. Graphite
ferry23
sixandahalf
Oreo
Had it been anti Muslim artwork it would have been gone pdq.
What does that say about the police and Thanet Council.What does your post say about you I wonder?
I think it says Oreo is absolutely spot on.
What do you think it says about Oreo sixandahalf?
I'm wondering likewise about you sixandahalf. Do you think this is acceptable?
If anti-Muslim cartoons and hate rhetoric are wrong and banned (and rightly so), why are anti-semitic drawings and other hate rhetoric against Jewish people permissible?
Why are those who condemn this being called into question?
Ironically, it would be if the exhibition were forced to close.
Do you not see the parallels with Beckman whose work referenced the brutality (and popularity), of the Nazi regime. Hitler considered his work degenerative art and confiscated it.
That is what Collings is saying about Israel and its treatment of Palestinians. He is highlighting the brutality of war and genocide.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde3eyzdr63o
I’m sorry that you are using the worn trope that a small child could do better. They can’t.
www.vice.com/en/article/can-four-year-olds-really-do-a-better-job-than-famous-artists/
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