Pro-Palestine Activists Protest at British Museum During Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition’s Opening Weekend
Pro-Palestine group Energy Embargo for Palestine protested in the British Museum’s Great Hall on September 10 during the opening weekend of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. The action followed reporting that Belarusian billionaire Igor Tulchinsky contributed $6.8 million to support the tapestry’s transport from France to London and had funded a yurt in a community center in Efrat, an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank now under UK sanctions. Protesters unfurled “the people’s tapestry,” made with A Space for Us Now and Camden Friends of Palestine, featuring community-made panels with messages including “stop fueling genocide” and “welfare not warfare.” The group called on the museum to sever ties with BP, rename the BP Lecture Theater, end funding linked to fossil fuels and BDS-listed companies, and create a staff-empowering ethics committee for partnership decisions.
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This story was covered in Hidden Hoards, Public Fury, and Forgery Wars