SpreadTheTruth: Picasso’s ‘Motherhood’ painting covered by a motherhood picture from Gaza

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Picasso’s ‘Motherhood’ painting covered by a motherhood picture from Gaza | Al Mayadeen English

PUBLISHED ON: 10 OCT 2024

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Picasso’s ‘Motherhood’ painting covered by a motherhood picture from Gaza | Al Mayadeen English

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In London, two supporters of the Youth Demand activist group have pasted a photo of a Palestinian mother and a child from Gaza over Picasso's famous "Motherhood" painting at the National Gallery to demand a two-way arms embargo on "Israel", according to the group. In a press release, the group said, "At just before 12:00, the pair walked into room 43 at the National Gallery and plastered a photograph of a Gazan mother clutching her child over the protective glass cover of Pablo Picasso’s 1901 painting ‘Motherhood (La Maternité) before pouring red paint on the gallery floor." "Youth Demand is calling for a two-way arms embargo on Israel and for the new UK government to halt all new oil and gas licenses granted since 2021."

Youth Demand also said that the image they used was taken by Palestinian journalist Ali Jadallah and conveys "a distressed and bloodied pair coated in debris." They added that the journalist's caption for the picture reads “A mom holds [her] injured child after an Israeli attack, as Israeli airstrikes continue on twelfth day, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City." One of the protesters who took action is Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 21, a Politics and International Relations student at Greenwich, London, who said, “I’m taking action because as a jew, I feel like it’s my duty to call out the genocide being committed in Gaza. I want the world to know this isn’t in the Jewish name and I want to see a free Palestine. When Keir Starmer says Britain stands with Israel he’s wrong. We know very well that this is a genocide, not “self-defense” and we as the people of Britain say enough is enough.” The group also said that around 2,000 people in Lebanon of all ages have also been killed by Israeli airstrikes in the last year, on top of the death toll in Gaza and the West Bank. Check our website: https://english.almaya... Follow us on Twitter: