An anti-Israel organization staged a protest against the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) on Sunday.Adalah-NY, an organization that campaigns for the boycott of Israel, raised signs and carried cardboard guitars that read “apartheid” while chanting against Israel outside New York’s Carnegie Hall, causing a small disturbance on February 3. The protesters stood outside a fund-raising brunch for the IPO, which was followed by a performance.On their Facebook page, the organization posted, “As the IPO’s wealthy supporters attend a lavish brunch inside to sustain its whitewashing of Israeli apartheid, we’ll be outside sustaining our love of justice with a small Palestinian brunch and music for liberation with the big freedom sounds of the Rude Mechanical Orchestra.”
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