Whitworth gallery director Alistair Hudson forced out over Palestinian statement – Exclusive: Manchester University accused of ‘stifling debate’ in its response to UK Lawyers For Israel complaints about exhibition | the Guardian

The director of the Whitworth Art Gallery is being asked to leave his post by the University of Manchester, after a row when a statement of solidarity with Palestine’s “liberation struggle” was removed from an exhibition of works by a human rights investigations agency.
Alistair Hudson, who heads the Whitworth and Manchester Art Gallery, has been asked to leave by the university, the Guardian understands, after a series of complaints by UK Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI).