The Yasser Arafat Museum has a cartoon exhibit. It ended up much funnier than it was meant to be.

The Yasser Arafat Museum in Ramallah just opened a new exhibit.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh opened the“Palestine and Yasser Arafat” cartoon exhibition, at the exhibition hall of Yasser Arafat Museum, Sunday, January 23, 2022. The opening was also attended by Dr. Ahmed Sobh, Director General of the Yasser Arafat Foundation, members of the Museum Committee, and Palestinian and foreign political, cultural and media figures.

During the opening, the Prime Minister said: 43 countries participated in this exceptional exhibition, to an exceptional man, which reflects the extent of international solidarity with Palestine, the firm roots in the memory of Yasser Arafat in the international community and the heart of every Palestinian and Arab and everyone who loves peace and freedom in the world.

So because they got artists from 43 countries to contribute, that means that everyone loved Arafat? This is a stretch, so say the least.

The exhibit included cartoons of Arafat as well as some of the usual anti-Israel cartoons. But some of the caricatures upset some Palestinians, who bullied the museum to take them down!

They removed the cartoons that "did not receive an understanding from Palestinian public opinion."

They claim they can run a state, but they can't even run a cartoon exhibition!

Meanwhile, the generic anti-Israel pictures with depictions of bombs with the Star of David falling on children, or of Israel undermining the foundations of the Dome of the Rock, or of a guillotine of an American flag and Israeli blade murdering thousands of Palestinians, are presumably still on view.

Because showing Arafat with a big nose is offensive, but saying that Jews are mass murderers is perfectly OK, in the twisted world of the Palestinian territories. 

(h/t Khaled Abu Toameh)

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