Zack Polanski urges investigation into Israeli settlement-linked sponsor of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition

Green Party leader Zack Polanski has urged the UK government to investigate the sponsorship of the British Museum’s Bayeux Tapestry exhibition by a billionaire who has funded a community centre in an illegal Israeli settlement. Middle East Eye reported on Thursday that Igor Tulchinsky, a Belarus-born billionaire who has backed the exhibition in a deal estimated to be worth £5m ($6.75m), unveiled a “therapy yurt” in November 2025 in Efrat, an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank. Home to around 12,000 Israeli settlers, Efrat is built on land seized from four Palestinian villages and is now under UK sanctions.