Activists Protest Bayeux Tapestry Sponsor’s Ties to Israeli Settlements
Demonstrators at the British Museum decried billionaire Igor Tulchinsky’s financing of a community center in an illegal Israeli settlement in the Occupied West Bank.
Activists gathered at the British Museum on Saturday, September 12, to protest financier Igor Tulchinsky's financial support of a community center in an illegal Israeli settlement in the Occupied West Bank. The protesters from Energy Embargo for Palestine unfurled a "People's Tapestry" in the museum's Great Court, calling for the British Museum to end its partnership with BP and discontinue sponsorships from billionaires contributing to climate change and Israel's settler-colonial occupation.
The demonstration follows Middle East Eye's report on Tulchinsky's "therapy yurt" for Israeli residents of Efrat, a settlement bloc near Jerusalem. The yurt and community center may violate the UK's sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements. British politician Zack Polanski has urged the government to investigate Tulchinsky's sponsorship with the British Museum.
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