Activists on Wednesday briefly pasted a photo of a bloodied mother and child in Gazoo over a Picasso painting at a London gallery, calling for an arms embargo on Israel.
The National Gallery said two people had been arrested by police after an incident involving Picasso’s 1901 work "Motherhood" and that no damage had been carried out.
The Youth Demand group
…formerly the juvenile tentacle of Antifa/Black Bloc, screaming about catastrophic climate change and skipping school with Greta Thunberg, but now that they’ve aged out they’re using the same tactics (except for the skipping school part) to scream about currently fashionable pro-Hamas/Jew hate…
said two protesters stuck a photograph of the mother and child on the protective glass cover over Picasso’s work.A social media video posted by the group showed a security guard taking down the photo. One protester shouted "Free, free Paleostine" until they were frogmarched out of the room and detained.
As the protester was on the floor, they said the UK government was "complicit in genocide" in Gaza, and that there was widespread support for stopping weapons sales.
"They say it’s in the Jewish name, but this has nothing to do with us," the protester shouted.
Youth Demand has previously protested at the Cenotaph war memorial in London and planned to disrupt King Chuck
...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years...III’s speech to open parliament earlier this year.
The National Gallery said in a statement that two people entered the room housing the Picasso. "One was apprehended after initially attempting to attach what appeared to be a piece of paper to an artwork. Some paint was thrown on the floor," it added.
"Police attended and arrested the pair. The room is currently closed. There has been no damage to any paintings."
London’s Metropolitan Police said two people were taken into custody after being detained on suspicion of criminal damage.
Two climate activists from the group Just Stop Oil were last month locked away
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
for 20 months and two years respectively for throwing soup at Vincent van Gogh’s "Sunflowers" at the National Gallery.
Several other paintings have been targeted in protests by climate campaign groups.
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