Three employees at the Noguchi Museum in New York were fired for violating an internal policy that banned keffiyehs, a garment symbolic of Palestinian culture. A fourth employee, the director of visitor services,

Since February of this year, the Museum of Food and Drink has been located on the second level of the Empire Stores building in Brooklyn.

The actions of the museum are doubly foul and hypocritical because the institution features the name and work of Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi, who was interned by the Roosevelt administration during the Second World War because of his ethnic background and who himself fought in defense of democratic rights.

On Thursday night, the industry decamped to Northampton to celebrate Ralph Lauren’s reign as an icon of American style. But in Manhattan, at the Church of the Village in Chelsea, Women’s History Museum’s Mattie Barringer and Amanda McGowan cemented their status as some of the city’s most exciting experimental designers.

The firings come after museum leaders disciplined several employees who refused to remove their keffiyehs, traditional scarves often worn as a sign of support for Palestinians