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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Maya Wolfe-Robinson North of England correspondent

Whitworth gallery director Alistair Hudson forced out over Palestinian statement

The Whitworth Art Gallery, which hosted the Forensic Architecture exhibition at the centre of a complaint by the Israeli advocacy group UKLFI.
The Whitworth Art Gallery, which hosted the Forensic Architecture exhibition at the centre of a complaint by the Israeli advocacy group UKLFI. Photograph: Mike Robinson/Alamy

The director of the Whitworth Art Gallery is being asked to leave his post by the University of Manchester, after a row when a statement of solidarity with Palestine’s “liberation struggle” was removed from an exhibition of works by a human rights investigations agency.

Alistair Hudson, who heads the Whitworth and Manchester Art Gallery, has been asked to leave by the university, the Guardian understands, after a series of complaints by UK Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI).

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