Rabbis protest over gallery plan for medieval Jewish cemetery

Hundreds of Satmar rabbis have demonstrated outside the Swiss embassy in London in protest at plans to desecrate a medieval Jewish cemetery.

They claimed the expansion of the Kunsthaus fine art museum in Zurich threatened to damage the burial ground.
Jewish communities in New York, Tel Aviv and Switzerland have met Swiss representatives to argue against the work.

The Commission for the Preservation of American Heritage Abroad has also appealed for excavation work at the site to be halted.

Opponents of the work say the expansion of the Kunsthaus venue could be completed in a way that would allow the Jewish graves to remain in place.