Julie Menin blasts the Mets serious mistake in honoring Nazi-loving designer John Galliano at 2027 gala

Metropolitan Museum of Art executives are set to hold an emergency meeting Sunday over their decision  to honor notorious “antisemite” John Galliano at their Met Gala nest year, just as City Council Speaker Julie Menin slammed the institution for making a “serious mistake,” The Post has learned.Museum executives scheduled an impromptu session after growing fallout over their plans to host the “John Galliano: Horizons” exhibit at their Met Gala 2027 fundraiser in May, an insider confirmed to The Post.Galliano was convicted of a hate crime in 2011 for drunkenly berating patrons at a Paris bar with antisemitic insults, and proclaiming “I love Hitler” in a disturbing incident that got him booted from his cushy gig at Dior.Menin, in a scathing letter, demanded the Met reconsider planning the annual fundraiser’s theme around the disgraced designer — telling organizer Anna Wintour that Galliano does not meet the standards of the prestigious museum.“In a time of rampant anti-Semitism in our city, I believe honoring John Galliano is a serious mistake.I urge the Met to reconsider this decision as choosing to bestow the highest honor the museum has to someone who has a history of anti-Semitic and anti-Asian slurs only serves to fan the flames of hate and sends the message of a normalization of this type of conduct,” Menin, who is Jewish, told The Post Saturday.“I am also deeply troubled by reports that there is a more recent 2019 incident that was never investigated.

As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and the first Jewish speaker of the New York City Council, I strongly urge the Met to reconsider honoring Galliano.”The letter marks the first time the Menin has spoken out about the controversial exhibit, which will be on view at the Met for nine months next year.Antisemitism activists also slammed the Met for hosting the “hateful” designer.“Anna Wintour must be awfully comfortable embracing a Nazi-loving antisemite to put the prestige of...