(Algemeiner) Ben Cohen - Helsinki's Lutheran Bishop on Thursday said that the 200 artists who pledged to boycott Finland's leading gallery of contemporary art because of its links with a Finnish-Israeli philanthropist had adopted an antisemitic stance. "If an individual Jew is held responsible for the actions of the State of Israel, or if an individual Jew is prohibited from supporting Israel, or if Israel as a state is required to do something more than other democratic states, we are guilty of antisemitism," Bishop Teemu Laajasalo told Finland's Helsingin Sanomat.
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