Exclusive video: Ghada Karmi speaks outside British museum during Palestine protest

Today, 25 April 2026, pro-Palestine protesters demonstrated outside the British Museum in London against the museum’s decision to remove reference to Palestine from some of its exhibits. The move came as the museum capitulated to notorious Israel lobby group ‘UK Lawyers for Israel’ (UKLFI).

Despite heavy-handed policing and attempts at incitement by a small pro-Israel counter-demonstration, the protest was peaceful and good-natured. Activist photographer ‘BetterThanReal’ captured some moments from the demonstration for Skwawkbox and the Canary:

He also spoke to well-known Palestinian academic, author and activist Ghada Kharmi, who was born in Palestine before the ‘Israeli’ occupation ever existed. Karmi said that the museum had become an “enemy” of the Palestinian people:

Demonstrators see the museum’s capitulation to Zionist lobbying as a discriminatory erasure of Palestinian history and culture that mirrors Israeli policy of eradicating Palestine on the ground. Placards and speeches referred to the museum’s censorship and cultural imperialism and its discarding of many centuries of established practice and tradition of referring to the region as ‘Palestine’.

Despite amplified heckling by a small contingent of far-right Zionist ‘auditors’ — including former Met officer Gill Levy, who was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a Muslim woman at the first protest outside the British Museum in February — the humanitarian demonstrators refused to respond to provocations and ignored the agitators.

As the weather warms, the British Museum and its surrounds are increasingly busy thousands of tourists. Unless the museum ends its cowardice, Londoners and tourists alike will continue to receive an education from the protesters.

Featured image via Andrea Domeniconi