The Israel-Hamas war is tearing the arts world apart
The conflict has set artists against institutions and their funders, and led to sackings and cancellations as organisations fear accusations of bias or antisemitism
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Narrated by Richard Morrison
If you had to name Britain’s most woke arts centre in our most woke city you may well plump for the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol. Recent events there have focused on such subjects as decolonisation, gender liberation and asylum seekers’ rights. So it has been astonishing to see the trouble the Arnolfini has brought on itself because, for once, it took a stand against the radical-chic orthodoxies of the arts world.
• The Israel-Gaza war explained
Back in November, in the wake of the massacre instigated by Hamas and the devastating Israeli response in Gaza, the gallery decided to cancel the screening of a Palestinian film, Farha, and a subsequent panel discussion, both presented by the Bristol Palestine Film Festival. In fact the film
