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Outrage over National Portrait Gallery photo of keffiyeh-donned Gaza activist

Image of anti-Israel PSC campaigner who compared Gaza War to the Holocaust on display in taxpayer funded gallery

January 9, 2025 13:48
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A photograph of Walshe activist Nelly Adam taken by Laurie Broughton appears in the National Portrait Gallery's 2024 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize exhibit. She can be seen draped in a keffiyeh and a “free Palestine” pin from the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC).
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The National Portrait Gallery has come under fire from Jewish campaigners for displaying a keffiyeh-draped portrait of a Welsh woman who retweeted a post about the “Zionist regime” and has addressed crowds at numerous anti-Israel rallies.

The photograph of Nelly Adam, also known as Queen Niche, appears in the gallery’s 2024 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize exhibit, which opened in November.

In the image of Adam, taken by Laurie Broughton, she is draped in a red, green, black and white keffiyeh and wears a “free Palestine” pin from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC).

On her social media, Adam has repeatedly compared the war in Gaza with the Holocaust.