I’ve written about the Call de Girona before and the perils of trying to commodify Jewish history for a nation that expelled its Jewish population over half a millennium ago: Spain, I love you so much. And then you go and do stupid sh¡!t like this.

The Call museum has struck again, this time with a Purim post that I thought was maybe a joke, maybe playing on the instruction that one should drink until he does not know the difference between Haman the villain and Mordechai the hero. They posted a 19th-century Italian megillah (the Scroll of Esther, read for Purim) with one of the detail photos upside-down and backwards.

         

I posted a comment letting them know, suspecting that it was not a joke but prepared to take it in good humor if they came back at me with a “haha, you missed the humor!” They’ve deleted the post with my comment and re-posted it exactly as it was.

I’ve decided to try one more time, and as I promised them, I’ll leave it at that: