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French Jewish groups are up in arms over a new photo exhibition in Paris which they argue glorifies Palestinian terrorism, JTA reports.

The controversial exhibition put up by Doctors without Borders features pictures and accompanying text about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, which, it claims, began with Zionism’s “goal of creating a Jewish state in Palestine.”

Part of the exhibition centers on a 26-year-old from Shechem who has been imprisoned multiple times in Israeli jails. Without expounding on the terrorist crimes that likely put him in jail, the exhibit simply describes Israeli prisons as having “degrading, humiliating” conditions.

Another photo displays an Arabic-language poster describing a Palestinian terrorist eliminated while attacking Israelis as a “martyr.”

Roger Cukierman, president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, lobbied the Paris municipality last week to deny the medical group a space to present the exhibition called “In Between Wars.”

His pleas fell on deaf ears as the exhibit opened on December 23 at the Maison des Metallos, a cultural space owned by the municipality.

The CRIF slammed the exposition in a statement, asserting it “can only augment anti-Semitic violence and the terrorist threat.”

Cukierman also took to Twitter, writing: “We are crying still for 130 dead but for Doctors without Borders, terrorist are martyrs. Shocking.”

In response, Mego Terzian, the president of Doctors without Borders, told AFP that while he “understands the controversial nature” of the exposition, Cukierman “acted irresponsibly” and his claims “are outside the norms of public discourse and unacceptable.”

In other related developments, hidden details of France’s collaboration with its Nazi occupiers during the Holocaust become publicly available for the first time Monday.

The records, kept secret for some 75 years, include countless documents relating to the Vichy Regime, led by Marshal Philippe Petain between 1940 and 1944.

During this period, French police and paramilitary organizations worked closely with Nazi officials to round up tens of thousands of Jews, before sending them to their deaths.

According to the UK’s Daily Mail, the documents include harrowing stories of how French Jews were betrayed as well as the names of these Nazi collaborators.

Nearly 76,000 French Jews, mainly from major cities including Paris, were deported during the war. All but an approximate 3,000 were killed in the extermination camps.

The newly opened archives can be “freely consulted” by civil servants and historical researchers “subject to the declassification of documents covered by national defense secrecy rules.”

The directive comes six years after France’s Council of State ruled the Vichy government also bore “responsibility” for the deportations and that anti-Semitic persecution was not forced upon the French by Germany but rather carried out by choice.

The Council urged then a “solemn recognition of the state’s responsibility and of collective prejudice suffered” by the victims.

Post-war French governments had earlier refused to admit any wrongdoing by the Vichy government during the Holocaust.   (INN)

Cynthia Blank

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