TEL AVIV, May 18, 2011 (WAFA)- Right-winged Knesset members demanded the removal of a painting of a Palestinian farmer in his grove that was recently hung in the Knesset, according to Maariv newspaper on Wednesday.

The newspaper said the Knesset had decided to purchase several art works representing life in Jaffa since the turn of the last century.

An Israeli painter, Eliahou Bokobza, painted the artwork from a photograph taken by an Armenian photographer, Elia Qahwejian, of a Palestinian family in its groves in Jaffa. Bokobza said that he did the painting not for incitement but due to his belief in a clear, legitimate political agenda.

A number of Knesset members demanded the painting be removed, because it embodies the Palestinian Nakba.

M.N./F.J.