Stockholm
Israel’s ambassador to Sweden was thrown out of a national museum this week for vandalizing an artwork that he said glorified Palestinian suicide bombers. The installation, Snow White and the Madness of Truth, by Israeli-born artist Dror Feiler, consists of a boat floating in a sea of red liquid and carrying a smiling photo of the female suicide bomber who killed 21 people in a Haifa restaurant last October. At the exhibit’s gala opening, Israeli Ambassador Zvi Mazel unplugged a spotlight illuminating the artwork and hurled the light into the pool. “Shame on you!” he yelled at Feiler in Hebrew. “You are an obvious hater of Israel.” Feiler said his work was intended as a statement against violence.
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