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A growing number of San Francisco artists have become outspoken in their calls for a cease-fire in Gaza, and for the museums where they exhibit to join them. But those calls have largely gone unacknowledged.

The anti-Zionist artists call themselves the California Jewish Artists for Palestine.

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — When the inaugural California Jewish Open exhibit opens at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco in June, the gallery

The artists called for the museum to join the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, which leadership refused.

The artists, who are part of a group calling themselves California Jewish Artists for Palestine, had requested the museum divest from all funding sources associated with Israel.

The Contemporary Jewish Museum will have empty space where the works would have gone.

The group asked for the ability to modify or remove their works and for the SF institution to divest from “Israeli governmental and pro-Zionist foundation funding.”

“My art is about the people we carry with us,” she told Hyperallergic.

In June, 93-year-old Don Rowe learned he had only until the end of August to leave his ground-floor apartment at River’s Edge condominiums.

While the finishing touches are being put on an a highly anticipated affordable apartment complex on Maple Street, two recent development proposals suggest another way of creating housing: turning something