What a f*ing surprise, it doesn't match Strimpel's... He includes pics of some of the hat mail he's received as a result:

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https://www.facebook.com/matthew.collings.71/posts/1951039996285893/

This is what really happened on the day after the opening of my exhibition “Drawings against genocide” organised by Art For A Free Palestine. A journalist called the police. They visited the show and told her it was not antisemitic but anti Israel and no action was going to be taken. The journalist wrote exaggerated emotional claims on Twitter which provoked a storm of rightwing media comment. The nonsense succeeded in making my supposed antisemitism the issue not Israel’s undoubted genocide against the Palestinians.
The event went like this. There’d just been a talk. There were 15 or so people left. Most old like me, some younger including mothers with children. A woman came up. It was Zoe Strimpel who turns out to be a Telegraph columnist. She asked if I was the artist and said she was offended, the drawings are antisemitic. I asked is there a particular one where there’s antisemitism. She said she saw the Star of David next to a swastika. I asked well which nation do you think is acting like nazis now. She said as a Jew she felt she was in an unsafe space. I said I didn’t believe she really did, she was repeating hasbara talking points, only. I said the point of doing that is to defend a genocide. She asked if she was black would i say that. I said if anyone is unsafe it’s Palestinians. She refused to accept any mention of them. There was no aggression, no bad breath, no raised voice, no physicality, no swearing. I wasn’t nearer to her than several feet. I didn’t move from the position I was in when she first came up. She spoke in an agitated way but also in pre existing phrases like headlines. People around us gradually noticed her. A Jewish artist the same age as me said to her I’m a Jew and I don’t feel unsafe here. She started becoming physically gestural, waving her phone, and shouting she was going to report me to the police, and moving towards the door. Some voices said free Palestine. She shouted while filming herself and the room, so you’re hounding the Jew out! I hadn’t moved from where I was. I said she should hurry to the police if she was really so alarmed. She shouted that she would, and would also report me to the Community Security Trust. I said report me to them, then. No one in the room menaced her, they were surprised by her. It was when she began shouting about the police that a couple of voices called out free Palestine. I felt they had every right to as that is the meaning of the exhibition.

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More unrepentant commentary and images of his work on his instagram page (imginn link to bypass sign-in):

https://imginn.com/matthew.collings_

For example:

'Israel treats babies, Palestinian babies, with utter psycopathic brutality, burning them alive, bombing them, torturing them , driving nails into their legs, putting cigarettes out on their bodies, turning off incubators if the babies are in there, so they die - those are documented evidence-based realities, and you're telling me that I can't criticise that with my art, because you've got a mythology you don't even believe about something that happened in the Middle Ages called "blood libel" involving fantasy babies being fantasy eaten?

I DON'T TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY.' - https://imginn.com/p/DWV_W9TjK2V/

Good for him and balls to the brain-dead zombies piling on.

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That was an entertaining watch...the lads having a bloody good laugh at this "strimpelton".