Via Times of Israel:
A French auction house canceled the sale of a painting that equates former South African President Nelson Mandela with a Palestinian militant serving multiple life sentences for murder.
The portrait of Marwan Barghouti, a senior PLO official whom an Israeli court in 2002 found guilty of terrorism and murder for planning bomb attacks on civilians, was pulled last week following complaints by Israel’s embassy in Paris, according to the French-language news site lphinfo.com.
The painting also contains a text saying that the late Mandela, who spent many years in jail in South Africa for his non-violent fight against apartheid, “was labeled a terrorist in 1950.”
The news site did not name the auction house that pulled the item but reported that the auction was organized by Reporters without Borders, an international nongovernmental organization.
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