""Israel, you can't hide. We charge you with genocide," they chanted while flinging flyers into the air and handing out mock Biennale booklets titled, 'A Guide to Complicity and Protest.'"
""The Venice Biennale is complicit in genocide," said one of the speakers at the protest, calling the exhibition an 'empty fantasy of inclusion and tolerance.'"
On May 6, 2026, hundreds of pro-Palestine activists protested outside the Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale, demanding its immediate closure. Led by the Art Not Genocide Alliance, they blocked the entrance to Belu-Simion Fainaru's exhibition, waving Palestine flags and displaying banners against artwashing genocide. Over 200 artists signed a letter urging the exclusion of Israel from the exhibition. The Biennale provided Israel with an alternative location while the official pavilion is under renovation, leading to political backlash and the resignation of the award jury.
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