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Thousands of artists call for Israel’s exclusion from Venice Biennale

A protester calling for a free Palestine holds up his hand painted with a Palestinian flag [File: Ammar Awad/Reuters]

Thousands of artists, curators and museum directors have called for Israel to be excluded from this year’s Venice Biennale art fair and accused the exhibition of “platforming a genocidal apartheid state”.

Israel has been facing mounting international criticism, including in the art world, over its military offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians since October 7.

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