A British university has withdrawn its decision to withdraw a statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people from an exhibition of the Commission for Human Rights Investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate \u2013 August 19, 2021 \u2013 Forums and conferences<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Alistair Hudson, director of the Whitworth Gallery at the University of Manchester, said it was important that Forensic Architecture Group’s “Cloud Studies” exhibition “remains fully open”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jewish groups were told by a senior official that the fair’s opening statement had been deleted after complaints that it was “factually incorrect and one-sidedly dangerous”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But with the return of the note <\/a>of solidarity, Hudson said there will now be space for alternative responses to the issues raised by the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added that the memo \u201cwill be prominently displayed in the exhibition,\u201d and added: \u201cThe university, as a non-political organization, has tried to balance the very complex issues raised by the exhibition, but we believe that the worst consequence of all parties involved is that this exhibition has been closed for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forensic Architecture responded to the university’s decision to cancel the memorandum of solidarity on the Palestinian “liberation struggle” by withdrawing its exhibition “with immediate effect” on Sunday. It is closed on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At protests outside the Whitworth Gallery on Wednesday, Manchester Palestine Action said the university had “withheld the truth about Israel’s war crimes”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n