UK artist defends ‘Drawings Against Genocide’ after show cancelled
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“British artist Matthew Collings says his exhibition “Drawings Against Genocide”, depicting Israeli violence against Palestinians, has been falsely portrayed as anti-Semitic.”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that British artist Matthew Collings created the exhibition 'Drawings Against Genocide' depicting Israeli violence against Palestinians. Al Jazeera explicitly mentions the artist and the show title, and other web results discuss the controversy surrounding the exhibition's content and the artist's defense of it.
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— Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st-century_genocides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st-century_genocides
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— The genocide of indigenous peoples, colonial genocide, or settler genocide is the elimination of indigenous peoples as a part of the process of colonialism.
According to certain genocide experts, incl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples
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— Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(1490_to_…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(1490_to_…
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“After outrage and protests, the London show has been cancelled.”
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Three independent web sources confirm the cancellation of the London show. Al Jazeera reports it was 'abruptly cancelled' following intervention by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). Another source mentions the gallery was 'forced to cancel the show just three days after announcing it', and a third reports the venue cancelled it over 'antisemitic imagery' following a UKLFI complaint.
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— Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has been accused of carrying out genocide against Palestinians during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. A wide consensus of scholars have concluded that Israel's a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_genocide_allegatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_genocide_allegatio…
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— Since 2014, the government of the People's Republic of China has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin…
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— The Rwandan genocide, also known as the Tutsi genocide, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
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