Marrakech – While celebrities dazzled on the red carpet at the 2025 Met Gala, a different kind of spotlight shone just a block away — this one aimed directly at the event’s perceived silence over Gaza’s genocide.
Braving the rain and a heavy police presence, Pro-Palestine demonstrators took to the streets of Manhattan Monday night, declaring that this year’s Met Gala “has blood on its hands.”
Organized by activist group Within Our Lifetime, the protest unfolded near the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the annual fashion fundraiser was in full swing.
Waving Palestinian flags and chanting “Free, Free Palestine,” protesters slammed the gala’s celebration of “extreme wealth and materialism” amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal assaults on the Palestinian enclave.
“The Met Gala represents the pinnacle of celebrity culture and capitalist excess,” one demonstrator shouted through a megaphone.
“Meanwhile, Gaza is starving, and the world’s elite are turning a blind eye.”
Police swiftly cordoned off the area, but footage circulating on social media showed protesters climbing over barricades and marching through Central Park toward the gala venue.
As their numbers grew, tensions escalated.
Some were escorted away by officers, while others remained behind barricades, refusing to back down.
This marks the second consecutive year the Met Gala has drawn ire from Pro-Palestine activists.
In 2024, an online campaign urged users to block celebrities on social media for attending the event, accusing them of ignoring or even endorsing Israeli’s genocide on Gaza.
The protest group cited the reports that no humanitarian aid or food trucks have entered Gaza in over two months, leading to widespread starvation.
“The fashion world’s silence is complicity,” the group posted online.
