Posted on 10/09/2024 11:35:13 AM PDT by nickcarraway
This morning, two activists pasted a photograph of a Palestinian mother and child over the protective glass of Pablo Picasso’s 1901 painting Motherhood (La Maternité) at the National Gallery in London, in a bid for attention to the dangers faced by families in Gaza.
After pasting the image, Jai Halai, a 23-year-old employee at the National Health Service, and Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, a 21-year-old student, poured red paint on the gallery floor before their arrest. A video posted to the Youth Demand X page captures Rosenfeld seated in front of the faux-blood splatter, saying to a crowd of onlookers, “All of your taxes are used being used to kill entire families in Gaza. They say this is in the Jewish name, but this has nothing to do with us.”
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Halai and Rosenfeld are members of Youth Demand, a student branch of Just Stop Oil, the climate change–focused group that have staged headline-grabbing demonstrations at art institutions across the UK over the past several years. Their signature tactics target famous artworks—hurling soup, gluing themselves to frames—to draw attention to their causes; these actions do not leave lasting damage to the pieces themselves.
In a video posted to Youth Demand’s Instagram page, a security guard is seen ripping the photograph off the glass. The activists are then pulled by their arms and shirts by security away from the painting and detained. Halai speaks into the camera while pressed against the wall of the gallery.
“The UK government is complicit in genocide,” Halai said. “Children are dying in Gaza. They are being operated on without anesthetic. Women are giving birth without any medical attention. Our government is complicit. 87 percent of the public support an arms embargo in Israel, yet the government continues to provide arms.”
Youth Demand has called for a two-way arms embargo on Israel and for the UK government to end all oil and gas licenses granted since 2021. A statement from the group posted to its social media channels said to expect more disruptions in other cities from November 11.
Israel’s military assault on Gaza hit its one-year mark this week, marked by peaceful protests held in cities around the world. In April, the United Nations reported that more than 10,000 women have been killed in Gaza, including an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned. Additionally, over one million Palestinian women and girls in Gaza have limited access to food or drinkable water, resulting in a rise of disease “amidst inhumane living conditions.”
“Women who have survived Israeli bombardment and ground operations have been displaced, widowed, and facing starvation,” the report stated. “This devastating differentiated impact continues to make the war on Gaza also a war on women.”
Muslims. Stealing the ability of people to view the art. Sharia law. Cut off their hands.
“Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, a 21-year-old student,”
...always “a student”. Like she’s in a respectful position.
🙄
What, done with your chores?
Halai and Rosenfeld are members of Youth Demand, a student branch of Just Stop Oil, the climate change–focused group
Rosenfeld is a Kapo
Third world satanic ideology incapable of creating beauty and anything resembling art can only resort to defaming true beauty and art in the name of their hateful agenda.
Wonder if that mother is teaching her boy to hate and kill Jews?
True...and I am not a huge fan of Picasso. But it is art.
You can bet the subjects of that photograph were celebrating and dancing in the street a year ago...........
The entire security team at the National Gallery need to be fired and replaced with serious people.
The drama never ends when moslems attack someone and get hit back. The A-holes went too far this time and now are getting WWII style defeat instead of Arab style defeat which is surrender and we all go home to do it again.
Most likely.
This changes everything.
No doubt a vast improvement even if it was the wrong thing to do.
What about the Israeli Jewish moms and their babies, tortured, raped and murdered by Gazans on October 7th, 2023? Gazans have blood on their hands, and it was from the Jews they butchered. No sympathy from me for these muslim jackals, I hope the IDF kills them all.
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