According to the JTA, the exhibition of 68 photos entitled “Death” by Ahlam Shibli opened on May 28 at the Jeu de Paume museum of contemporary art in Paris. The museum is subsidized by the French government.
The museum’s English description reveals (emphasis added):
This work is based on the demand for recognition that became apparent with the Second Intifada, the Palestinian uprising against the colonial power
in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967. The Second Intifada
lasted from 2000 to 2005 and claimed several thousand deaths on the
Palestinian side.
Death exhibits some of the ways in which the ones who are absent become present again—“represented”: Palestinian fighters, who fell in the course of their armed resistance against the Israeli incursions, and victims of the Israeli military
killed under different circumstances (Shaheed and Shaheeda); militants
who carried out attacks which they knew would lead to their death, among
them the men and women who detonated explosives on their own bodies to assassinate Israelis
(Istishhadi and Istishhadiya), and the prisoners. The former are dead,
the latter are alive, jailed for a large part if not the rest of their
lives.
The representations designate any person who lost his or her life as a result of the Israeli occupation of Palestine: a martyr.
This exhibition justifies and glorifies Palestinian terrorists.
The JTA continues:
According to CRIF, the umbrella body of
French Jewish communities, the people commemorated in the photos are
“mostly from the [Fatah-affiliated] al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the Izz
ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades [of Hamas] and the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine.” All three are designated by the European Union
as terrorist groups.
One of the photos is of Osama Buchkar, a
PFLP operative who killed three people and wounded 59 in a terrorist
attack he carried out at an open market in Netanya on May 19, 2002. The
caption to his picture says he “committed a martyr mission in Netanya.”
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