Dear Sir or Madam,
The headline of Michael Slakman’s "Iran Exhibits Anti-Jewish Art" is misleading and untrue. Iran has not exhibited "anti-Jewish" art: a curator has created the exhibition within the Palestinian Contemporary Art Museum in Tehran. As Slakman points out, the exhibit is not sponsored by the Iranian government. Yet the entire tone of the article, specifically the headline, seems designed to encourage an us vs. them attitude. If there is to be any reconciliation between the United States and Iran, it is important not to feed the flames of antagonism with misleading headlines. If a museum in the southern United States had a show of Ku Klux Klan art, would the headline "United States Exhibits Racist Art" be honest, unbiased, or accurate? By extension, is this headline any different than the misleading information fed to the media and the people of the U.S.A. by the Bush administration as they built their ‘case’ for the invasion of Iraq?
Sincerely,
Oliver Ray
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