WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) – A Jewish assemblyman said Friday that an exhibit of Palestinian art and crafts, scheduled for display in a public building, should be canceled because it is anti-Israel and “promotes terrorism and violence.”

Items to be shown include an Arab headdress trapped in a Star of David made of barbed wire, and a piece paying homage to “Palestinian martyrs in the anti-Israel uprising that began in 2000.”

The curator of the exhibit said that while some of the art deals with Israel’s military presence in the Palestinian territories and “the apartheid-type life that Palestinians are forced to live under … what comes through is the desire for a peaceful life.”
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