On Friday, the Israeli ambassador to Sweden was expelled from the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm for throwing a spotlight at an installation by Dror Feiler and Gunilla Sköld Feiler. The installation includes a photograph of Hanadi Jaradat, the Palestinian lawyer who became a suicide bomber in October. Here's the BBC's story.
Here's the installation:
So: what are the limits of freedom of expression? No small question.
Today the BBC ran an overview of European and Israeli newspapers; this discussion highlights the questions within the European left concerning anti-Semitism: what it is, how it manifests itself.
[I'm letting this percolate for the moment.]
Posted by Heather at January 19, 2004 01:40 PM
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