Neue Galerie, Starbucks, Chanel store, and Navy recruitment center vandalized – NYC & Brooklyn, NY
an autonomous group of anti-colonial anarchists redecorated Neue Galerie on 5th Avenue in NYC with blood red paint yesterday for its direct support of the IDF & its ties to Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems.
“In response to the call from Bethlehem for no celebration during genocide, and on one of the biggest days of the year for capitalist consumerism, an autonomous group of anti-colonial anarchists targeted Neue Galerie on 5th Avenue in New York City for its direct support of the IOF and its ties to Elbit Systems. The activists smeared paint as thick and red as blood across the outer walls and entrance gate.
They also wheatpasted flyers showing a tube of red lipstick superimposed over a military tank’s gun. With this intervention, the outsides of the Neue Galerie were made to match its insides. Like so many cultural institutions in the imperial core, this private museum abets the colonial war machine by art-washing genocide. Ronald S. Lauder is the Neue Galerie’s president and an heir to the Esteé Lauder fortune. He is also the president of the World Jewish Congress, and it was as such that he declared, on October 7, that it is imperative “to bolster the success of the IDF and the state of Israel.” His support of the ongoing Palestinian genocide could not be clearer.
The CEO of Esteé Lauder, Fabrizio Freda, sits on the Board of Blackrock, which is the largest investor of weapons manufacturing in the world and owns major shares in Elbit technology.
Elbit uses Palestinians as test subjects for its experimental weapons technologies, and thus has been the target of direct actions all over the world. These bold autonomous activists believe in a liberated Palestine and an end to the Israeli apartheid state.
Their action brings to mind the exhortations of Juliano Mer Khamis, founder of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, who said that the third intifada would be a cultural intifada. We join them in their cry: LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA!
via: unravel