In New York, more than 150 activists gathered at the Brooklyn Museum to protest a photography exhibition they say normalizes the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. The protesters say the exhibition, entitled “This Place,” is backed by funders who also support the Israeli military. The action also targeted the museum’s role in gentrification and displacement of people of color in Brooklyn. Protesters draped banners that read “decolonize this place” and “displacement destroys culture,” and affixed new labels to photographs with the indigenous Arabic names of locations. Amin Husain spoke out inside the museum before being escorted away.

Amin Husain: [using human microphone] “The days in which art and artists are instrumentalized to normalize oppression, displacement and dispossession of any people are over. We are watching you.”