The goal of the photo exhibit at Indianapolis International Airport was to present the city to travelers as a welcoming and tolerant place. But airport officials have given one of those photos — and its caption — a less-than-welcome reception.After the display was up for a month, airport officials have removed one of the photos and its caption because of a complaint — though they won’t say who complained or what precisely was the concern.“I still don’t know who complained and what the nature of the complaint was,” said the artist, Indiana University photography Professor Jeffrey Wolin. “I’m just confused.”SPECIAL SECTION: Tour the new Indianapolis International Airport terminalComplicating matters, it’s not the photo of Israeli immigrant Shai Sarfati that caused the concern. Airport spokeswoman Susan Sullivan confirmed it was the caption, a biographical narrative in which Sarfati shares his provocative thoughts on American Judaism and Israeli foreign policy.Sullivan would say only that the photo and text were removed one day after someone complained “to prevent the risk of anyone else possibly being offended.” She said officials are trying to determine whether it should stay down.In the text, Sarfati, who moved to America in 2002 so his wife could attend graduate school, says, in part:“We hold weapons and protect Israel and while doing that we sometimes do terrible things, terrible things,” Sarfati says in the 2006 interview printed beside the photo. “Two days ago artillery shells fell in Gaza and killed 19 innocent people while they were asleep. It cannot get any more terrible than that.”Sarfati also calls the way American Jews celebrate Hanukkah “superficial and symbolic.”Hanukkah “is not a big holiday in Israel,” he says. “The reason it’s so big in America is that Jews needed to have a holiday similar to Christmas so they could give gifts and do lights and not feel so different.”Other photographs in the exhibition — which includes the pictures and stories of a Filipina serving in the U.S. military and a young boy from Uganda living with his aunt in Bloomington — remain on display.Sarfati, who moved back to Israel last year, could not be reached for comment. Wolin, who is Jewish, said provoking discussion is part of the goal of public art and called the airport’s decision to take down the photograph of Sarfati a mistake.“Frankly, Indianapolis and the Midwest don’t have a great reputation for tolerance,” Wolin said. “Part of the point of the project was to show that Indianapolis had come a long way and is a much more welcoming place — more welcoming of diversity.”I think this is intolerant to silence one of the immigrants and what they have to say about the American immigrant experience. It’s proving exactly what they’re trying to rebut.“This summer, Indiana State Fair officials temporarily removed the first-prize wedding photo from an exhibition after viewers said the picture was too racy.The airport photography exhibit, coordinated by Blackburn Architects on behalf of the Indianapolis Airport Authority, is one of several art installations at the airport, Sullivan said.”It’s been such a great vehicle for a message of inclusion and diversity," said Diane Thomas, the center’s president and chief executive officer. “I just don’t know what happened here.”