Göttingen is located in the state of Lower Saxony and has a 141-member Jewish community.Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Jerusalem office, told The Jerusalem Post that the depiction of Einstein “sounds more like stupidity than antisemitism.”The university’s equal opportunity commissioner and a student group criticized a number of the drawings as sexist because of the “objectified” depiction of naked breasts and buttocks.“I support the view that the exhibit contains pictures with discriminating and sexist content,” said Doris Hayn, the commissioner for equal opportunity at the university.The artists’ group KomiTee, which was responsible for the pictures, said the exhibit was meant as satire.The artists and the university group that mounted the exhibit said in a joint statement that there are no antisemitic tendencies among the artists or within the university organization Studentenwerk that supported the exhibit.The Post reported in September that the synagogue in Ulm – the birthplace of Einstein in southern Germany – was repeatedly vandalized.The police have not apprehended any suspects.The municipality-funded vh Ulm adult education center has been a hotbed of anti-Israel activity over the years. The center, which is managed by the controversial administrator Dagmar Engels, has hosted speakers who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.Neuer Vorwurf: Ausstellung #Geschmackssache in #Göttingen soll auch antisemitisch sein. Mehr auf https://t.co/5OLHkT980M pic.twitter.com/h4bQ4yChQi
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