A crowd of participants of the anti-Israel demonstration on Friday, May 31, broke into the Brooklyn Museum, setting up a “camp” in the museum and causing damage to works of art, writes the website of the New York Post.

According to police and the museum administration, about 1,000 people participated in the action. They used climbing equipment to enter the building. Several protesters hung a giant banner over the facade of the museum building reading "Liberate Palestine from Genocide."

Demonstrators attacked museum guards. There were clashes with the police. Many lawbreakers were arrested and some were injured.

According to the NYP, the action could be organized by the group “Within Our Lifetime”, which on the eve called on supporters in social networks “to flood the Brooklyn Museum beyond Gaza”, seize it and hold it, demanding an end to the “American-Israeli genocide”.