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Sunday, March 22, 2026
Israeli diplomat slams UK anti-Israel art exhibit featuring swastika as antisemitic and ‘indefensible’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael’s charge d’affairs in the UK condemns an art exhibit that associates Israel with Nazi imagery, calling it antisemitic and indefensible.
The exhibit by artist David Collings, called “Drawings against Genocide” and showing in the town of Margate in southeast England, features drawings that harshly criticize Israel in graphic terms. One work features text reading “Stop apartheid demon,” and others show Israeli soldiers stepping over skulls in scenes doused with blood.
One work displays a drawing of US President Donald Trump with a swastika and an Israeli flag, along with the words “Death,” “Israel” and “Epstein,” a reference to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender. The caption of that drawing reads, “Trump thinks: ‘Hmm, Epstein… Better invade Iran & murder Muslims,'” a likely reference to the claim that Trump launched the ongoing Iran war to distract from his associations with Epstein.
Yesterday in Margate, UK, an exhibition titled “Drawings Against Genocide” by Matthew Collings displayed monstrous blood libel, portraying Jews as demons eating children and as a blood-thirsty “Jewish lobby.”
The images speak for themselves, worse than Nazi propaganda. pic.twitter.com/3yUHicysMl
— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) March 22, 2026
The exhibit drew attention on social media after Zoe Strimpel, a British Jewish writer, posted on X that she visited the exhibit and confronted Collings, leading to jeers from onlookers.
In response, Israeli charge d’affairs Daniela Grudsky posted late yesterday, “This isn’t art. It isn’t free speech. It’s antisemitism — crude, aggressive, and completely indefensible. It should be treated with the full seriousness of the law.”
This isn’t art. It isn’t free speech.
It’s antisemitism — crude, aggressive, and completely indefensible. It should be treated with the full seriousness of the law. https://t.co/dd8BYw95Td
— Daniela Grudsky (@DanielaGrudsky) March 21, 2026
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