New York’s Museum of Modern Art Forced to Close as anti-Israel Protesters Storm In

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters stormed inside New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on Saturday afternoon, forcing it to close its doors early.

Arts and culture website Hyperallergic reports close to 800 pro-Palestinian protesters filled the museum’s atrium in protest of alleged investments into Israel’s military weapons by the museum’s trustees.

The protesters distributed more than 1,000 imitation MoMA pamphlets criticizing trustees Leon Black, Larry Fink, Paula Crown, Marie-Josée Kravis and Ronald S. Lauder, the report states, and hung a banner over the lobby that read “MoMA Trustees Fund Genocide, Apartheid, and Settler Colonialism.”

SECRETARY BLINKEN: — there is a gap between the intent – there is a gap between the intent and the results, and that’s the gap that we’re trying to make sure is closed. Look, this could be over tomorrow. This could be over tomorrow if Hamas got out of the way of civilians instead of hiding behind them, if it put down its weapons, if it surrendered. And what there ought to be as well is a call on part – on behalf of the entire world for Hamas to do just that. That would stop this tomorrow. But in the absence of that, Israel has to take steps not only to defend itself against the ongoing attacks from Hamas, but against Hamas’s stated intent to repeat October 7th again and again if given the opportunity.

SECRETARY BLINKEN: We have been a strong proponent of humanitarian pauses. In fact, because of our advocacy, because of the work we did, we got pauses, we got pauses on a daily basis, to make sure that people could get out of the way, that humanitarian supplies could get in. We helped negotiate the longer pause that resulted in the release of more than 110 hostages and that also allowed a doubling of humanitarian assistance that was getting into Gaza. But when it comes to a ceasefire in this moment, with Hamas still alive, still intact – and again, with the stated intent of repeating October 7th again and again and again – that would simply perpetuate the problem.

And so our focus is on trying to make sure that civilians are protected to the maximum extent possible, that humanitarian assistance gets in to the maximum extent possible. And again, if Hamas were to put down its weapons tomorrow, surrender tomorrow, this would be over tomorrow.

https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-with-martha-raddatz-of-abc-this-week-3/

““MoMA Trustees Fund Genocide, Apartheid, and Settler Colonialism.”

They sure do love the genocide, apartheid, and colonialism words, don’t they.

I for one like the apartheid bit. How many Arabs/Muslims are Israeli citizens? How many Jews are citizens of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Iraq, etc. etc.?

Then there’s ‘colonialism’. Jews were living in what is now Israel long before there were any Arabs around, yet Jews are somehow the colonizers?

Hamas and its supporters openly brag about wanting to drive the Jews into the sea and that Hitler ‘didn’t finish the job’ and yet Israel is committing the ‘genocide’.

Rubbish, with a high price tag.

You beet me to it. I went to the one in DC and it was from top to bottom total garbage.

A prefect demonstration of Americas decline. A total rejection of meritocracy in favor of diversity and perversion.

I bet some of Hunter's best work was displayed there.

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