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Burning Man, home of 'radical self expression,' removes pro-Palestinian sculpture from its website

Road signage points the way to the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert in Gerlach, Nevada.

The debates and protests sparked by Israel's war in the Gaza Strip have worked their way into seemingly every corner in the world — even the free-spirited desert festival in Nevada known as Burning Man.

Organizers of the festival, where "radical self-expression" is one of its guiding principles, found themselves embroiled in controversy

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