Weeping trees, black smoke, fire and a little girl behind bars. These are some of the images that Palestinian children from Gaza drew as part of a now canceled exhibition. The “A Child's View From Gaza” exhibition was planned to take place at the Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) in San Francisco on September 24, said the organizing NGO the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA). The exhibition was suddenly cancelled last Thursday after MECA had established a partnership with MOCHA and spent several months planning the exhibit. The NGO said that pro-Israeli groups are behind the cancellation, after putting pressure on the museum's board to stop the exhibit from happening. “It is very sad and disturbing that MOCHA, which has in the past courageously displayed artwork by Iraqi children featuring US tanks and weaponry, has now chosen to censor artwork of similar content by Palestinian children,” said MECA in its statement. “But it is an outrage that these pro-Israel groups are using their considerable political and financial power to intimidate a local non-profit organization into silencing Palestinian children and censoring their art,” the NGO added. MECA is now organizing a campaign against the cancellation and asking members and supporters to write the American museum and ask them to show the children's art work. Here are some of the images that were scheduled to be shown: BM
