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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.