THE FORWARD
by JTA
June 15, 2015

The famed Louvre Museum is one of two major cultural sites in Paris being accused of discrimination after rejecting requests to visit by Israeli art history students. The governor of the Ile-de-France region, which includes Paris and its suburbs, has asked the Paris prosecutor’s office to investigate the rejections, the French daily Liberation reported Monday. A Tel Aviv University art history professor, Sefy Hendler, requested reservations in May for visits to the Louvre and the Sainte-Chapelle, a Medieval chapel, at the end of June during a trip being funded by French Friends of TAU. Both replies said all the slots were filled…Several days later, Hendler sent new requests to the institutions for the same time on behalf of two institutions that he made up: an art institute in Florence, Italy, and the “Abu Dhabi Art History College.” He received immediate reservations for both fake institutions. READ MORE