On November 12, cultural theorist and curator Ranjit Hoskote resigned from the Finding Committee of Documenta, perhaps the world’s most prestigious art exhibition. Hoskote quit two days after the Israeli artist, philosopher, and theorist Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger resigned her position on the Committee after her request to delay proceedings due to the war in Gaza was rejected. Hoskote resigned after the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung accused him of “anti-Semitism” and sympathising with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, which argues against Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. Advertisement The newspaper recalled that Hoskote had signed a BDS India petition in 2019,...