Council Apologizes for Antisemitic Art Exhibit

0:00On March 23, a local council in southeast England has apologized after promoting an art exhibition accused of anti-Semitic imagery on its tourism. Website. Then at District Council pulled the listing for the show at Joseph Whale Studios in Margate, once complaints rolled in, saying it was not affiliated and. Sartre for any upset caused. The exhibition, called Drawings Against Genocide, features drawings tied to the Israel Gaza conflict. One shows auctioneers from Sotheby's, owned by a French Israeli billionaire seemingly eating babies. Others depict a politician with cash and an Israeli flag, plus scenes of soldiers amid blood and a stain-starved David. Campaigners slam the words as pulling from old anti-Semitic tropes, like blood libel. The artist, 70-year-old Matthew Collins, pushed back, insisting the piece's target Zionism, not Jewish people, and nothing mentions Jews. Directly. Collins boiled over when a Jewish visitor challenged the artist during a visit.

1:00She described feelings surrounded and shouted at, then left shaken, and reported it to police. Officers looked into it on March 21, 2026, but found no crimes. Public backlash grew fast, with figures like actress Tracey Ann Overman and politician Michael Gove calling it disgusting online. The council's quick retreat highlights the fine line between protest art and offense and heated debates.