No Glorification Here

Veteran journalist Larry Defner is exasperated by the outcry against the Swedish artwork seen by some to be an anti-Semitic endorsement of suicide bombings. “Snow White and the Madness of Truth makes Palestinian terrorism – and Israeli repression, too, but mainly Palestinian terrorism – so graphic and immediate as to be nauseating, which is the effect terrorism and repression should, but unfortunately don’t, have on people at large. The Jewish reaction to the artwork and to Ambassador Zvi Mazel’s trashing of it show how… as soon as the cry of anti-Semitism goes up loudly enough, there is no discussion in Israel or the Diaspora about whether or not it was justified.”